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🆕PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates!
For example, in 1871 external causes of death (accidents, violence and suicide) among young adults was highest in industrial and fishing areas www.populationspast.org/vio1544/1871...
✍ New post on Global Health at LSE!
'Child stunting was once common in rich countries. Lessons from global history on its decline.'
@ericbschneider.bsky.social on his team's recent systematic review in BMJ Global Health: bit.ly/4uE2KFH
#childhealth #childnutrition #globalhealth
Alice Reid
In this week's blog post, Professor Eric B. Schneider (LSE Economic History) writes on his research team's recently published work in BMJ Global Health on child stunting: how lessons from the past can...
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Implication for today’s WASH debates:
Sanitation infrastructure matters—but it may not be enough.
Reducing stunting likely requires:
• behaviour change
• increasing the salience of child stunting
Curious how others working on WASH think about this.
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Child stunting is not as salient as mortality as a health indicator because it is difficult for individuals to understand.
Stunted children look normal relative to their peers in LMICs.
They are only short compared to healthy children, which people cannot observe.
