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    Nutritional status and its deteminants
    (1980-03-14) Bulan, Ma. Susana T.; Tan, Edita A.
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    The effect of income and price changes on the nutritional intake of Metro Manila residents
    (2005-04) Bulao, Rex Jonathan; Jhocson, Anna Patricia; Tan, Edita
    Energy and protein malnutrition has been a persistent problem in the Philippines. According to the 1998 National Nutrition Survey, it was found that among the nutrients, Filipinos in general only meet the corresponding RDA for protein· at 106%. Energy was only 87.8% of RDA, while the intake of vitamins and minerals remained grossly inadequate, ranging from 57.1% to 88.1% of RDA. This paper aims to determine the effect of changes in income and food prices on the consumption behavior of Metro Manila residents. Also, the effect of price changes on their nutritional intake is determined by estimating the sensitivity of their nutrient intake to changes in prices, specifically calorie and protein intake. Using the raw data from the 1999- 2000 Food Consumption Survey conducted by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS), the demand function of the 13 most commonly consumed food items is estimated using the tobit stochastic model. Then the demand elasticities and nutrient price elasticities of these food items are calculated. Among the 13 food items, only 8 (rice, instant noodles, beef, chicken, egg, tomato, mango and milkfish) are regressed by EViews, the statistical software used due to the technical or illegal processes. The resulting income elasticities indicate that all sources of protein (meat), with the exception of egg, are luxury items while all sources of carbohydrates are found to be normal goods. This is despite the findings of FNRI that Filipinos are able to meet the required protein intake while having deficiencies in the required intake of carbohydrates. This ability to meet protein requirements can be attributed to the fact that carbohydrate sources, like rice, also have high protein content. The demand for almost all food items are found to be sensitive to changes in income among lower socioeconomic classes. This findings support the view of the World Bank (1981) that the most efficient policy to increase the calorie and protein consumption is to raise the income of the poor. The demand for these food items and nutrients, on the other hand, are insensitive to changes in price. Most of these items have nutrient-price elasticities within the range of -0.01 to -0.02. Because of these findings, price stabilization of these food items is not the answer to combat energy and protein malnutrition. Rather, it promotes the findings of several economists such as Haddad (2003), who stated that investment in education and sanitation is most important to improve nutrition in the long run.
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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.