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Landholding, wealth and risk of blinding malnutrition in rural Bangladeshi households

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  • Cohen, N.
  • Jalil, M. A.
  • Rahman, H.
  • Matin, M. A.
  • Sprague, J.
  • Islam, J.
  • Davison, J.
  • Leemhuis de Regt, E.
  • Mitra, M.

Abstract

The 1982-1983 Bangladesh nutritional blindness study visited 11,618 rural households and examined 18,660 preschool-age children in an effort to determine the prevalence and determinants of eye lesions and loss of sight due to vitamin A deficiency (xerophthalmia). Risk of xerophthalmia was significantly higher for children from households without any of the indicators of relative wealth used. Almost 80% of blind children came from landless households, and even a very small garden reduced considerably the chances of a household having a xerophthalmic child. Poorer households with access to less than 0.3 acres land or no garden or without a tin roof, wristwatch, radio or cycle were at least twice as likely as their more fortunate neighbours to have a young child with any type of xerophthalmia. Taking account of such socio-environmental risk factor weightings would direct the scarce resources of intervention programmes to households and children who most need them.

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  • Cohen, N. & Jalil, M. A. & Rahman, H. & Matin, M. A. & Sprague, J. & Islam, J. & Davison, J. & Leemhuis de Regt, E. & Mitra, M., 1985. "Landholding, wealth and risk of blinding malnutrition in rural Bangladeshi households," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 21(11), pages 1269-1272, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:21:y:1985:i:11:p:1269-1272
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    1. Ruel, Marie T. & Levin, Carol E., 2000. "Assessing the potential for food-based strategies to reduce Vitamin A and iron deficiencies," FCND discussion papers 92, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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