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Household socio-economic status, social support and infant and child growth in urban South Africa: a cohort study from 1990
thesis
posted on 2018-10-18, 11:23 authored by Barbara A. WilleyThe rapid political, economic and social changes experienced by South Africans from 1991,
combined with socio-economic inequalities ingrained in South African society at this time, made the
early 1990s a unique and well-suited period to investigate child growth inequalities. Furthermore,
recent estimates of low birth weight and stunting (≤ 3 years), showing prevalence of 15% (Chen et
aI., 2006) and 25.5% (Labadarios, 1999) respectively, indicate that poor intrauterine and postnatal
growth patterns continue to represent considerable public health issues in this setting.
This study aimed to investigate associations of birth measures of household SES and social
support with infant/child growth in urban South Africa. Anthropometric, demographic, socioeconomic
and social support data for quantitative analyses were obtained from the 1990 Bt20
cohort (n=3275). [Continues.]
Funding
Loughborough University, Department of Human Sciences. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Ruggles–Gates Fund for Biological Anthropology. Cambridge University, Parkes Foundation Small Grants Fund.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Publisher
© Barbara Annouscha WilleyPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2007Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en