Malnutrition Rates in Chile from the Nitrate Era to the 1990s

dc.contributor.authorLlorca-Jaña, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorBarría Traverso, Diego
dc.contributor.authorDel Barrio Vásquez, Diego
dc.contributor.authorRivas, Javier
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-30T02:46:29Z
dc.date.available2022-11-30T02:46:29Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractFollowing Salvatore and the WHO, in this article, we provide the first long-term estimates of malnutrition rates for Chile per birth cohort, measured through stunting rates of adult males born from the 1870s to the 1990s. We used a large sample of military records, representative of the whole Chilean population, totalling over 38 thousand individuals. Our data suggest that stunting rates were very high for those born between the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. In addition, stunting rates increased from the 1870s to the 1900s. Thereafter, there was a clear downward trend in stunting rates (despite some fluctuations), reaching low levels of malnutrition, in particular, from the 1960s (although these are high if compared to developed countries). The continuous decrease in stunting rates from the 1910s was mainly due to a combination of factors, the importance of which varied over time, namely: Improved health (i.e., sharp decline in infant mortality rates during the whole period); increased energy consumption (from the 1930s onwards, but most importantly during the 1990s); a decline in poverty rates (in particular, between the 1930s and the 1970s); and a reduction in child labour (although we are less able to quantify this).en_ES
dc.facultadFacultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativasen_ES
dc.file.nameLlorca_Mal2021.pdf
dc.identifier.citationLlorca-Jaña, M.; Barría Traverso, D.; Vásquez, D.d.B.; Rivas, J. Malnutrition Rates in Chile from the Nitrate Era to the 1990s. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 13112. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182413112en_ES
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182413112
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositoriobibliotecas.uv.cl/handle/uvscl/7393
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rights© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
dc.subjectMALNUTRITIONen_ES
dc.subjectCHILEen_ES
dc.subjectSTUNTING RATESen_ES
dc.subjectANTHROPOMETRYen_ES
dc.subjectHEIGHTen_ES
dc.titleMalnutrition Rates in Chile from the Nitrate Era to the 1990s
dc.typeArticulo

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