Journal de l'obésité et du métabolisme

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Resilience in Maternal and Child Nutrition Outcomes in A RefugeeHosting Community in Cameroon

Qian Lu

Refugees are also perceived as a burden to their host communities, and nutrition insecurity could be a vital space of competition. We have a tendency to explored the connection between exile presence and a number community’s resilience in nutrition outcomes in Cameroon. We have a tendency to additionally tested an analytical framework for evaluating community resilience throughout shocks. We have a tendency to used information from perennial crosssectional Demographic and Health Surveys in Cameroon (2004 and 2011), information on exile movement, and information on extreme climatically events, epidemics, and conflicts from multiple sources. Outcome variables were maternal weedy, maternal anemia, and kid weedy, anaemia, aerobatics and wasting. The exposure variable was residence inside a locality during which refugees settled. we have a tendency to use a genetic matching rule to pick controls from the remainder of the country when excluding areas experiencing synchronal shocks. We have a tendency to use a difference-in-differences analysis to match outcomes between the exposed and management areas. The 2004 survey comprised ten,656 girls and eight,125 youngsters, whereas the 2011 survey comprised fifteen,426 girls and eleven,732 youngsters. Except for anaemia that showed a decreasing trend in each the refugee-hosting community and therefore the remainder of the country, all different indicators (wasting, weedy and stunting) showed increasing trends within the refugee-hosting community however decreasing trends within the remainder of the country. The matched management cluster showed an analogous trend of decreasing trend for all the symptoms.