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gigs package - new egen extensions for international newborn and child growth standards

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  • Simon Parker

    (MARCH Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

  • Linda Vesel
  • Eric Ohuma

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Children’s growth status is an important measure commonly used as a proxy indicator of advancements in a country’s health, human capital and economic development. Understanding how and why child growth patterns have changed is necessary for characterising global health inequalities. Sustainable development goal 3.2 aims to reduce preventable newborn deaths by at least 12 deaths per 1000 live births and child deaths to 25 per 1000 live births (WHO/UNICEF, 2019). However, large gaps remain in achieving these goals: currently 54 and 64 (of 194) countries will miss the targets for child (

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  • Simon Parker & Linda Vesel & Eric Ohuma, 2023. "gigs package - new egen extensions for international newborn and child growth standards," UK Stata Conference 2023 10, Stata Users Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:lsug23:10
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