| Title: |
Effects of early-life poverty on health and human capital in children and adolescents: analyses of national surveys and birth cohort studies in LMICs |
| Authors: |
Victora, C; Hartwig, FP; Vidaletti, LP; Martorell, R; Osmond, C; Richter, L; Stein, AD; Barros, AJD; Adair, L; Barros, FC; Bhargava, SK; Horta, BL; Kroker-Lobos, MF; Lee, NR; Menezes, AMB; Murray, J; Norris, S; Sachdev, HS; Stein, A; Varghese, JS; Bhutta, Z; Black, RE |
| Publisher Information: |
Elsevier |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) |
| Description: |
The survival and nutrition of children and, to a lesser extent, adolescents have improved substantially in the past two decades. Improvements have been linked to the delivery of effective biomedical, behavioural, and environmental interventions; however, large disparities exist between and within countries. Using data from 95 national surveys in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), we analyse how strongly the health, nutrition, and cognitive development of children and adolescents are related to early-life poverty. Additionally, using data from six large, long-running birth cohorts in LMICs, we show how early-life poverty can have a lasting effect on health and human capital throughout the life course. We emphasise the importance of implementing multisectoral anti-poverty policies and programmes to complement specific health and nutrition interventions delivered at an individual level, particularly at a time when COVID-19 continues to disrupt economic, health, and educational gains achieved in the recent past. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02716-1 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02716-1; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:03437b79-b4c3-4637-b3c7-defb9af463dd |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.72F86C4 |
| Database: |
BASE |