Vulnerability to stunting in the West African Sahel |
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| Institution: | 1. Endoscopy Unit, University Division of Gastroenterology, City of Health and Science University Hospital, Turin, Italy;2. Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Ciriè Hospital, ASL TO4, Ciriè, Italy;1. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK;2. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegraphenberg A 62/2.01, Postfach 60 12 03, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany;3. Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Rue Namory Kéita, Nouna, Burkina Faso;4. Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.3, R. 309, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | This paper presents a simple simulation framework for understanding and analyzing vulnerability to stunting. We utilize Demographic and Health Surveys merged with satellite data on climatic shocks. Children aged 0–5 years are grouped into three categories: consistently stunted, vulnerable, and non-vulnerable. The first group constitutes those who are stunted and will also be stunted in any hypothetical period. Non-vulnerable are those whose likelihood to be stunted is zero. The vulnerable face a probability between 0 and 1 of being stunted. The probability is calculated as the share of years in which the child would be stunted, given the village level distribution of weather shocks over the period 2000–2013. We provide estimates of vulnerability to stunting in Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana, Mali, Northern Nigeria, and Senegal by aggregating over villages, districts and countries. |
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| Keywords: | Stunting Vulnerability Climatic shocks Sahel I31 I32 I140 |
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