Early life migration and undernutrition among circular migrant children: An observational study in the brick kilns of Bihar, India

India holds the world's largest burden of chronic and acute child undernutrition. Poverty and systemic inequities are basic causes of undernutrition that also drive households to engage in circular migration for livelihood. Short-term, temporary movement of the whole family, including young chi...

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Published in:Journal of global health 2022-01, Vol.12, p.04008, Article 04008
Main Authors: Roshania, Reshma P, Giri, Rakesh, Cunningham, Solveig A, Young, Melissa F, Webb-Girard, Amy, Das, Aritra, Mala, G S, Srikantiah, Sridhar, Mahapatra, Tanmay, Ramakrishnan, Usha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age groups
Breast feeding
Child
Child Nutrition Disorders - epidemiology
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Data collection
Employment
Families & family life
Food security
Global health
Growth Disorders - epidemiology
Households
Humans
Immunization
India - epidemiology
Infant
Kilns
Malnutrition
Malnutrition - epidemiology
Nutrition
Nutritional Status
Observational studies
Poverty
Prevalence
Public health
Seasons
Social protection
Summer
Transients and Migrants
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Summary:India holds the world's largest burden of chronic and acute child undernutrition. Poverty and systemic inequities are basic causes of undernutrition that also drive households to engage in circular migration for livelihood. Short-term, temporary movement of the whole family, including young children, is common; yet, the nutritional implications of recurrent movements beginning in early life has not been studied. We sought to estimate the association of repeat and early life migration with stunting and wasting outcomes among circular migrant children under three. Using a stratified cluster design, we conducted two waves of primary data collection among 2564 randomly selected circular migrant children under three years of age temporarily residing across 1156 brick kilns in Bihar, India. We conducted multilevel modeling to estimate the association of the number of migration episodes and age at first migration with stunting (
ISSN:2047-2978
2047-2986
2047-2986
DOI:10.7189/jogh.12.04008