Ellen Van de Poel|Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor|Caroline Jehu?Appiah|Jeanette Vega|Niko Speybroeck
Malnutrition and the disproportional burden on the poor: the case of Ghana
Erasmus University Rotterdam|World Health Organization|Ghana Health Service|World Health Organization|Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
malnutrition major public health development concern developing world poor communities within regions understanding nature determinants socioeconomic inequality malnutrition essential contemplating health populations developing countries targeting resources appropriately raise health poor vulnerable groups paper uses concentration index summarize inequality childrens heightforage zscores ghana across entire socioeconomic distribution decomposes inequality different contributing factors data used ghana 2003 demographic health survey results show malnutrition related poverty maternal education health care family planning regional characteristics socioeconomic inequality malnutrition mainly associated poverty health care use regional disparities although average malnutrition higher using new growth standards recently released world health organization socioeconomic inequality associated factors robust change reference population child malnutrition ghana multisectoral problem factors associated average malnutrition rates necessarily associated socioeconomic inequality malnutrition