Browsing by Author "Aquino, Ma. Corazon Kris M."

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    Nutritional status of 0-5 year old children in Bukidnon
    (2008-01) Aquino, Ma. Corazon Kris M.; Quines, Angel Rose P.; Tan, Edita Abella
    The central task of this paper is to investigate which determinants of child nutritional status have impacts in the short-run and/or the long-run. Percent height-for-age (hfa) score, a cumulative indicator of a child's nutritional status, was used as a long-term measure and percent weight-for- height score, (wfh) which reflects more recent processes often associated with food intake, illness, caring practices of the caregiver and sanitation practices of the household, was used as a short-term measure. The researchers used the 2004 Bukidnon Panel Survey, which followed the migrant children of the 1984 households. The significant determinants of long-term nutritional status of the child were income, mother's education, income-education interaction term, mother's age, mother's height and mother's height-age interaction term. On the other hand, caloric intake and access to clean source of water were found to have positive and strong impacts on the short-term nutritional status of the child. The insignificance of the gender variable also implies the absence of gender bias and physiological impacts on gender specific short-term and long-term nutrition status.