The Relationship Between Child Antropometry and Mortality in Developing Countries Book

	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	Abbreviations
	Preface
	Executive Summary
1	Introduction	1
2	Conceptual and Methodological Considerations	5
3	Results	11
	Anthropometry-Mortality Relationships and Population Attributable Risk	11
	Effect Modification and Confounding	24
	Age Effects	24
	Gender Effects	36
	Morbidity	38
	Breast-feeding	42
	Seasonality	43
	Socioeconomic Factors	45
	Length of Follow-Up	47
	Comparing the Predictive Ability of Anthropometric Indicators	48
	Attained Weight Versus Weight Change in Relation to Mortality	55
4	Implications	59
	Implications for Policy	59
	Implications for Programs	61
	Implications for Research	62
	References	67