Tall claims: Mortality selection and the height of children in India |
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| Authors: | Harold Alderman Michael Lokshin Sergiy Radyakin |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Urology, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;2. Centre for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;1. Department of Urology, Kanagawa Children''s Medical Center;2. Department of Neurosurgery, Kanagawa Children''s Medical Center;1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York;2. Joint Implant Surgeons, Inc., New Albany, Ohio;3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois;4. Kaplan Joint Center, Newton Wellesley Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;5. Department of Orthopaedics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina;6. Musculoskeletal Service Line, Medical University Hospital Authority, Charleston, South Carolina |
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| Abstract: | Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India (1992/93, 1998/99 and 2005/06) are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large differences in anthropometrics between the children who died and those who survived. Differences of this size are not substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although mortality risk is higher among malnourished children, selective mortality has only a minor impact on the measured nutritional status of children stratified by gender. |
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