Globally, 149 million children under 5 years of age are estimated to be stunted (length more
than 2 standard deviations below international growth standards),. Stunting, a form of linear …

Background Anthropometric measurements of healthy children differ in different parts of the
world due to the diverse ethnicity and cultural backgrounds of families. In longitudinal …

Human physical growth consists of different growth phases. These growth phases are
characterized by different growth rate changes. Therefore, this study aimed to examine …

The objectives of this paper are to examine to what extent Big Data are presently used in
population research and to consider their potential for causal inference. After examining the …

This paper proposes a pseudo‐birth‐cohort approach to deal with a lack of longitudinal data
to measure health inequities over time. Using Roemer's framework for inequality of …

Early-life environments into which newborn babies are born play principal roles in their
development. This study explores inequalities in infant mortality that are rooted in household …

The situations that result in poverty are multidimensional and complex, and so are their
consequences. Identifying the causes of poverty is the first step in eradicating it. Child …

This study aims to reveal the trajectory of disparity in receptive vocabulary developments
attributable to early-life circumstances. Using the cohort data collected from Ethiopia (N …

Studies on child poverty have multiplied in recent decades, becoming a key field of study for
the social sciences and political agenda. Child poverty is inexorably associated with the …

Background This study explores inequality of opportunity in terms of the health of adult
Indonesian people, associated with household and parental circumstances in childhood and …