Road access can influence protective and risk factors associated with nutrition by affecting
various social and biological processes. In northern coastal Ecuador, the construction of …

Objective: Social and economic changes associated with new roads can bring about rapid
nutritional transitions. To study this process, we:(1) describe trends in adult overweight and …

ObjectiveTo identify and compare the sociodemographic determinants of stunting, wasting
and overweight among infants of urban and rural areas in the Ecuadorian highlands …

Inadequate nutrition in preschool-aged children in an urban indigenous community outside
of Santo Domingo, Ecuador has a negative impact on growth and development. Nutritional …

Background: The simultaneous presence of undernutrition and over-nutrition represents a
paradox in global public health and is of increasing concern in Ecuador, where chronic …

Background: In middle-income countries, malnutrition concentrates in marginalized
populations with a lack of effective preventive strategies. Objective: Identify risk factors for …

The goal of this study was to evaluate factors associated with the prevalence of stunting,
anemia and overweight among children under 10 in the Southern Peruvian Amazon region …

Despite the multiple initiatives implemented to reduce stunting in Ecuador, it continues to be
a public health problem with a significant prevalence. One of the most affected groups is the …

Between 1997 and 2012, Paraguay achieved not only remarkable improvements in child
nutrition, but also a surprising elimination of the rural-urban differential in child height-for …

The paper attempts to measure the extent of malnutrition and poverty in the cities of Bogota
and Cali, Colombia. It determines lower bound estimates of the proportion of people who …