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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.
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    Urbanization and child nutrition in the Philippines
    (2006-11) Bacud, Kristina M.; Mendoza, Catrina Joy D.
    This study aims to examine the determinants of child nutritional status in the Philippines. Analysis using cross-regional socioeconomic data and the 2001 National Nutrition Survey (NNS) results were employed to ascertain the determinants of child nutritional status and verify whether urbanization is one of them. This study also discusses urban- rural differences in child nutritional status. Results from this study reveal that population density, poverty incidence, regional gross domestic product per capita, women's education, women's relative status to men, median duration of breastfeeding, and per capita food supply play significant roles in determining a child's nutritional status. However, the number of hospitals, a measure of household's access to health care, is found to be insignificant in this study. Children in urban regions are found to be of better nutritional status than children in rural regions suggesting the need for the government to intensify its programs that seek to improve the nutritional status of children in rural regions.