کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7393482 1481144 2015 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Using Agriculture to Improve Child Health: Promoting Orange Sweet Potatoes Reduces Diarrhea
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
استفاده از کشاورزی برای بهبود سلامت کودکان: ارتقاء سیب زمینی شیرین نارنجی باعث کاهش اسهال می شود
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is prevalent throughout the developing world, and causes night blindness and increases child morbidity and mortality. We studied the health benefits of biofortification in reducing VAD, using a cluster-randomized impact evaluation in 36 villages in northern Mozambique. Based on a sample of 1,321 observations of children under the age 5, biofortification reduced diarrhea prevalence by 11.4 percentage points (95% CI 2.0-20.8), and by 18.9 percentage points in children under the age three (95% CI 6.6-68.3). Diarrhea duration was also reduced. This is promising evidence that child health can be improved through agricultural interventions such as biofortification.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: World Development - Volume 74, October 2015, Pages 15-24
نویسندگان
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