Landholding, wealth and risk of blinding malnutrition in rural Bangladeshi households

摘要: Abstract The 1982–1983 Bangladesh nutritional blindness study visited 11,618 rural households and examined 18,660 preschool-age children in an effort to determine the prevalence determinants of eye lesions loss sight due vitamin A deficiency (xerophthalmia). Risk xerophthalmia was significantly higher for from without any indicators relative wealth used. Almost 80% blind came landless households, even a very small garden reduced considerably chances household having xerophthalmic child. Poorer with access less than 0.3 acres land or no tin roof, wristwatch, radio cycle were at least twice as likely their more fortunate neighbours have young child type xerophthalmia. Taking account such socio-environmental risk factor weightings would direct scarce resources intervention programmes who most need them.