Figures & Tables
Figures
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Comparison of Child Nutritional Status (%), 2006 and 2012, Haiti
Abbreviations: DHS, Demographic and Health Survey; SMART, Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions.
In Haiti, health care workers counseled new mothers on how to provide appropriate complementary foods to their breastfed infants.
Children between the ages of 6–59 months received vitamin A supplementation.
Tables
HDHS 2005–06 SMART 2012 (N = 2,463) (N = 4,727) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) Response rate 99.6 98.0 Age, mean, monthsa 28.2a (27.5–29.0) 26.4a (25.9–27.0) Sex (female) 51.2 50.4 Rural residenceb 66.4 57.8 Underweight Total 17.7 (15.6–20.1) 10.5 (9.3–11.9) Urban 12.3 (9.6–15.6) 8.6 (7.4–9.9) Rural 20.5 (17.7–23.6) 11.7 (10.6–13.0) Stunted Total 28.5 (25.9–31.3) 22.2 (20.2–24.3) Urban 18.6 (15.3–22.5) 18.4 (16.7–20.1) Rural 33.6 (30.1–37.2) 25.0 (23.4–26.7) Wasted Total 10.1 (8.2–12.7) 4.3 (3.6–5.2) Urban 7.5 (5.1–11.1) 4.3 (3.5–5.3) Rural 11.6 (8.9–15.0) 4.0 (3.3–4.8) Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HDHS, Haitian Demographic and Health Survey; SMART, Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions.
↵a The mean age of children in the SMART sample was significantly lower than that in the HDHS.
↵b Rural residence: households in villages or non-urbanized areas; urban residence: households in cities and towns.
