The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries

Amadu I, Seidu A-A, Duku E, Okyere J, Hagan Jr. JE, Hormenu T, Ahinkorah BO (2021)
Nutrients 13(5): 1-16.

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Amadu, Iddrisu; Seidu, Abdul-Aziz; Duku, Eric; Okyere, Joshua; Hagan Jr., John ElvisUniBi; Hormenu, Thomas; Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku
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The current study sought to investigate the joint effect of maternal marital status and type of household cooking fuel on child nutritional status in sub-Saharan Africa. Data in the children’s files of 31 sub-Saharan African countries were pooled from the Demographic and Health Surveys collected between 2010 and 2019. The outcome variables were three child anthropometrics: stunting (height-for-age z-scores); wasting (weight-for-height z-scores); and underweight (weight-for-age z-scores). The joint effect of maternal marital status and type of household cooking fuel on child nutritional status was examined using multilevel regression models. The results were presented as adjusted odds ratios (aORs) at p < 0.05. The percentages of children who were stunted, wasted and underweight in the 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa were 31%, 8% and 17%, respectively. On the joint effect of maternal marital status and type of household cooking fuel on stunting, we found that compared to children born to married mothers who used clean household cooking fuel, children born to single mothers who use unclean household cooking fuel, children born to single women who use clean household cooking fuel, and children born to married women who used unclean household cooking were more likely to be stunted. With wasting, children born to single mothers who used unclean household cooking fuel and children born to married women who used unclean household cooking fuel were more likely to be wasted compared to children born to married mothers who used clean household cooking fuel. With underweight, we found that compared to children born to married mothers who used clean household cooking fuel, children born to single mothers who used unclean household cooking fuel, children born to single women who used clean household cooking fuel and children born to married women who used unclean household cooking were more likely to be underweight. It is imperative for the governments of the 31 sub-Saharan African countries to double their efforts to end the use of unclean household cooking fuel. This goal could be achieved by promoting clean household cooking fuel (e.g., electricity, gas, ethanol, solar, etc.) through effective health education, and promotion programmes. The attention of policymakers is drawn to the urgent need for children’s nutritional status policies and programmes (e.g., dietary supplementation, increasing dietary diversity, improving agriculture and food security) to be targeted towards at-risk sub-populations (i.e., single mothered households).
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biomass fue l; child nutrition; single-motherhood; solar; sub-Saharan Africa
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Zeitschriftentitel
Nutrients
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13
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5
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1-16
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2072-6643
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Amadu I, Seidu A-A, Duku E, et al. The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries. Nutrients. 2021;13(5):1-16.
Amadu, I., Seidu, A. - A., Duku, E., Okyere, J., Hagan Jr., J. E., Hormenu, T., & Ahinkorah, B. O. (2021). The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries. Nutrients, 13(5), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13051541
Amadu, Iddrisu, Seidu, Abdul-Aziz, Duku, Eric, Okyere, Joshua, Hagan Jr., John Elvis, Hormenu, Thomas, and Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku. 2021. “The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries”. Nutrients 13 (5): 1-16.
Amadu, I., Seidu, A. - A., Duku, E., Okyere, J., Hagan Jr., J. E., Hormenu, T., and Ahinkorah, B. O. (2021). The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries. Nutrients 13, 1-16.
Amadu, I., et al., 2021. The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries. Nutrients, 13(5), p 1-16.
I. Amadu, et al., “The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries”, Nutrients, vol. 13, 2021, pp. 1-16.
Amadu, I., Seidu, A.-A., Duku, E., Okyere, J., Hagan Jr., J.E., Hormenu, T., Ahinkorah, B.O.: The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries. Nutrients. 13, 1-16 (2021).
Amadu, Iddrisu, Seidu, Abdul-Aziz, Duku, Eric, Okyere, Joshua, Hagan Jr., John Elvis, Hormenu, Thomas, and Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku. “The Joint Effect of Maternal Marital Status and Type of Household Cooking Fuel on Child Nutritional Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys on Children from 31 Countries”. Nutrients 13.5 (2021): 1-16.
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