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Palestine - West Bank and Gaza Strip Nutritional Assessment 2003

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General Info
Provider 
ReliefWeb
Tabulations only
Geography 
Palestine (PSE)
Gaza Strip, West Bank
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
01/2003 - 08/2003
Data type
Survey:
  • Health facility
  • Household
  • Interview
Summary 

The Nutritional Assessment conducted in 2003 assessed the nutritional status of children ages 6-59 months across West Bank and Gaza Strip in Palestine. The survey measured child nutritional status after a year of food aid, subsets of children vulnerable to malnutrition, the quality of food consumed, and food security. Data were collected through a household-based survey. The sampling frame was based off of the 1997 census. The survey canvassed 3,086 children from 2,486 households.

Keywords 
24HR dietary recall, Agriculture, Anthropometry, Assets, Birth weight, Breastfeeding, Child anthropometry, Child labor, Children, Congenital anomalies, Coping behavior, Cough, Dairy products, Diarrhea, Disability, Education, Education expenditures, Employment, Falls, Family composition, Family size, Fever, Fish, Folic acid deficiency, Fruits and vegetables, Height, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household expenditures, Household heat, Hygiene, Income, Intestinal nematode infections, Iron deficiency, Iron-deficiency anemia, Livestock, Malnutrition, Marital status, Meat, Medicines, Micronutrients, Nutrition, Nutritional deficiencies, Preterm birth, Private social assistance, Protein-energy malnutrition, Public social assistance, Refrigeration, Religion, Road traffic injuries, School enrollment, Telephones, Unintentional injuries, Violence, Vitamin A deficiency, Vomiting, Weight, Zinc, Anemia, Body mass index, Calcium, Hemoglobin, Medical tests
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021