ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
How Seasonality of Malnutrition Is Measured and Analyzed.
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- The association between anthropometric failure and zinc deficiency among preschool-age children in rural Sidama region, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- How Does Survey Timing Influence Apparent Wasting Trends? A Case Study from Senegal.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Food system determinants of seasonal malnutrition in children under 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Vitamin A deficiency in India and seasonality of vitamin A-rich food consumption.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
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- Foundational Nutrition: Implications for Human Health.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Role of seasonality variation in prevalence and trend of childhood wasting in India: An empirical analysis using National Family Health Surveys, 2005-2021.Health science reports · 2023Article
- How Can Nutrition Research Better Reflect the Relationship Between Wasting and Stunting in Children? Learnings from the Wasting and Stunting Project.The Journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Linear Growth Spurts are Preceded by Higher Weight Gain Velocity and Followed by Weight Slowdowns Among Rural Children in Burkina Faso: A Longitudinal Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Methods for assessing seasonal and annual trends in wasting in Indian surveys (NFHS-3, 4, RSOC & CNNS).PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Seasonality is a critical source of vulnerability across most human activities and natural processes, including the underlying and immediate drivers of acute malnutrition. However, while there is general agreement that acute malnutrition is highly variable within and across years, the evidence base is limited, resulting in an overreliance on assumptions of seasonal peaks. We review the design and analysis of 24 studies exploring the seasonality of nutrition outcomes in Africa's drylands, providing a summary of approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. Over half of the studies rely on two to four time points within the year and/or the inclusion of time as a categorical variable in the analysis. While such approaches simplify interpretation, they do not correspond to the climatic variability characteristic of drylands or the relationship between climatic variability and human activities. To better ground our understanding of the seasonality of acute malnutrition in a robust evidence base, we offer recommendations for study design and analysis, including drawing on participatory methods to identify community perceptions of seasonality, use of longitudinal data and panel analysis with approaches borrowed from the field of infectious diseases, and linking oscillations in nutrition data with climatic data.
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