A longitudinal study of height gaps among Mexican children: Disparities and social inequity.
A longitudinal study of height gaps among Mexican children: Disparities and social inequity.
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一项对墨西哥儿童身高差距的纵向研究：差异和社会不平等。
DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113388
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2020-11
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Ochoa-Lagunas A
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作者：
Vilar-Compte M;Teruel G;Flores D;García-Appendini IC;Ochoa-Lagunas A
身高等健康结果是社会不平等的重要决定因素。我们评估了墨西哥不同亚人群中男孩和女孩随着时间的推移的身高差距。我们使用墨西哥家庭生活调查（MxFLS）前三波的纵向数据来分析7-10年来按性别、土著和贫困状况划分的儿童身高差异。我们控制儿童的特征，家庭因素和母亲的身高，并使用Blinder-Oaxaca分解方法来解释MxFLS三波中儿童身高的差异。主要调查结果表明，与非土著和社会经济地位较低的男孩和女孩相比，土著和极端贫困男孩和女孩的身高不平等现象持续存在。结果还显示，在类似的人口群体中，女孩的身高差距始终大于男孩，女孩的身高差距随着时间的推移而增加。这些研究结果表明，社会和经济决定因素对儿童的成长潜力的相关性，并需要审查社会决定因素对健康结果的关联。它们还强调必须设计和执行考虑到性别观点的公共政策。
Health outcomes such as height are important determinants of social inequities. We assess height gaps in Mexico among boys and girls from distinct subpopulation groups over time. We use longitudinal data from the first three waves of the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to analyze children’s height differentials by gender and by indigenous and poverty status over 7–10 years. We control for children’s characteristics, household factors, and mother’s height and use the Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition method to explain disparities in children’s height across the three waves of the MxFLS. The main findings suggest that height inequalities among indigenous and extremely poor boys and girls, compared with their non-indigenous and less socioeconomically disadvantaged counterparts, are persistent. The results also reveal that height disparities among girls are consistently greater than those among boys in similar population groups and that height gaps increase over time for girls. These findings indicate the relevance of social and economic determinants on children’s growth potential and the need to examine the association of social determinants on health outcomes. They also underscore the necessity to design and implement public policies that consider a gender perspective.
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