Effects of early-life poverty on health and human capital in children and adolescents: analyses of national surveys and birth cohort studies in LMICs

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dc.contributor.authorCesar G Victora
dc.contributor.authorFernando P Hartwig
dc.contributor.authorLuis P Vidaletti
dc.contributor.authorReynaldo Martorell
dc.contributor.authorClive Osmond
dc.contributor.authorLinda M Richter
dc.contributor.authorAryeh D Stein
dc.contributor.authorAluisio J D Barros
dc.contributor.authorLinda S Adair
dc.contributor.authorFernando C Barros
dc.contributor.authorSantosh K Bhargava
dc.contributor.authorBernardo L Horta
dc.contributor.authorMaria F Kroker-Lobos
dc.contributor.authorNanette R Lee
dc.contributor.authorAna Maria B Menezes
dc.contributor.authorJoseph Murray
dc.contributor.authorShane A Norris
dc.contributor.authorHarshpal S Sachdev
dc.contributor.authorAlan Stein
dc.contributor.authorJithin S Varghese
dc.contributor.authorZulfiqar A Bhutta
dc.contributor.authorRobert E Black
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T10:44:38Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T10:44:38Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-30
dc.description.abstractThe survival and nutrition of children and, to a lesser extent, adolescents have improved substantially in the past two decades. Improvements have been linked to the delivery of effective biomedical, behavioural, and environmental interventions; however, large disparities exist between and within countries. Using data from 95 national surveys in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), we analyse how strongly the health, nutrition, and cognitive development of children and adolescents are related to early-life poverty. Additionally, using data from six large, long-running birth cohorts in LMICs, we show how early-life poverty can have a lasting effect on health and human capital throughout the life course. We emphasise the importance of implementing multisectoral anti-poverty policies and programmes to complement specific health and nutrition interventions delivered at an individual level, particularly at a time when COVID-19 continues to disrupt economic, health, and educational gains achieved in the recent past.
dc.description.librarianPM2023
dc.facultyFaculty of Health Sciences
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/38482
dc.language.isoen
dc.schoolPublic Health
dc.titleEffects of early-life poverty on health and human capital in children and adolescents: analyses of national surveys and birth cohort studies in LMICs
dc.typeArticle
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