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ArticleBMC research notes2019

The contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to socioeconomic inequality in childhood anemia in Ethiopia: a regression-based decomposition analysis.

Shimels Hussien Mohammed, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Fatima Muhammad, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh

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Article in BMC research notes, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Shimels Hussien MohammedDepartment of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences-International Campus, Tehran, Iran. shimelsh@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8231-4158
Tesfa Dejenie HabtewoldDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Fatima MuhammadDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ahmad EsmaillzadehDepartment of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences-International Campus, Tehran, Iran.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences · IRIsfahan University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Groningen · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThere is a scarcity of evidence on socioeconomic inequalities of childhood anemia in Ethiopia. We determined the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in anemia and the contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to the observed inequality, using a nationally representative data of 2902 children included in the 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey. The data were collected following a multistage, stratified cluster sampling strategy. We followed the Blinder-Oaxaca regression-based approach to decompose the inequality and determine the relative contribution (%) of the dietary and non-dietary factors to the observed inequality.

resultWe found a significant pro-poor socioeconomic inequality in childhood anemia in Ethiopia. A third (~ 33%) of the inequality was attributable to compositional differences in the dietary determinants of anemia (dietary diversity, meal frequency, and breastfeeding factors). Non-dietary factors like residence place, maternal education, and birth weight) jointly explained ~ 36% of the inequality. Maternal education was the single most important factor, accounting alone for ~ 28% the inequality, followed by rural residence (~ 17%) and dietary diversity (~ 16%). Efforts to narrow socioeconomic gaps and/or designing equity sensitive interventions by prioritizing the poor in health/nutrition interventions stands worth of consideration to reduce the burden of childhood anemia in Ethiopia and beyond.

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Educational StatusNutritional StatusSocioeconomic FactorsAdultAnemiaBirth WeightBreast FeedingChildDietEthiopiaFemaleHealth SurveysHumansMaleRegression AnalysisRural PopulationAnemiaEthiopiaSocioeconomic inequality

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