HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY AND CHILD NUTRITION - THE INTERACTION OF INCOME AND GENDER OF HOUSEHOLD HEAD
HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY AND CHILD NUTRITION - THE INTERACTION OF INCOME AND GENDER OF HOUSEHOLD HEAD
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DOI：
10.1016/0305-750x(92)90001-c
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发表时间：
1992-08-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
PETERS, P
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作者：
KENNEDY, E;PETERS, P
肯尼亚和马拉维的数据表明，粮食安全和学龄前营养状况受到收入和户主性别相互作用的影响，而不仅仅是其中一个因素。家庭粮食安全不仅受到家庭总收入的影响，而且妇女控制的收入比例对家庭热量摄入也有积极和重大的影响。家庭不仅按男户主家庭和女户主家庭分列，而且女户主家庭还进一步分为法律上的女户主家庭（法律的户主为妇女）和事实上的女户主家庭（男户主缺席的时间超过50%）。在肯尼亚和马拉维，事实上的女户主家庭收入最低;尽管收入低，但学龄前儿童的营养状况明显好于收入较高的男户主家庭和法律上的女户主家庭。在事实上的女户主家庭中，在低收入环境中改善营养状况的能力与儿童喂养做法和其他养育行为相结合有关。研究结果表明，在只有长期才有可能实现持续收入增长的情况下，利用激励措施投资于儿童的干预措施可以更直接地改善儿童健康和营养。
Data from Kenya and Malawi suggest that food security and preschooler nutritional status are influenced by the interaction of income and gender of the head of household rather than simply one or the other. Not only is household food security influenced by total household income but the proportion of income controlled by women has a positive and significant influence on household caloric intake. Households were disaggregated not simply in male- and female-headed households but female-headed households were further disaggregated into de jure (legal head of household is a woman) and de facto female-headed households (male head of household is absent more than 50% of the time). In both Kenya and Malawi, the de facto female-headed households had the lowest income; despite this low income, preschoolers' nutritional status was significantly better than in the higher income male-headed and de jure female-headed households. The ability to improve nutritional status in a low-income environment in the de facto female-headed households is related to a combination of child feeding practices and other nurturing behavior. The findings suggest that interventions that exploit incentives to invest in children can provide more immediate improvements in child health and nutrition where sustained income growth is possible only in the long term.