期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷 18, 期 23, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182312843
关键词
nutritional health; inequality of human stature; body mass index; Canary Islands; nutritional transition
资金
- Project of Catedra Cajasiete de Economia Social y Cooperativa [A21100076, 21100059]
- Fundacion General de la Universidad de La Laguna
- Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (Government of Spain) [HAR2016-76814-C2-2-P, PID2020-113793GB-I00, PHA-HIS. RED2018-102413-T]
This study analyzes the anthropometric history of military recruits in a rural municipality in the Canary Islands during the economic modernization process throughout the 20th century. The data suggests that improvements in biological well-being since the 1960s are closely related to advances in nutrition. It also shows that infant nutrition is significantly associated with economic growth and demographic and epidemiological changes.
Developments in anthropometric history in the Iberian Peninsula have been remarkable in recent decades. In contrast, we barely know about the behavior of insular population groups and infants' and adults' growth during the nutritional transition in the Canary Islands. This paper analyzes the height, weight and body mass index of military recruits (conscripts) in a rural municipality from the eastern Canaries during the economic modernization process throughout the 20th century. The case study (municipality of San Bartolome (SB) in Lanzarote, the island closest to the African continent) uses anthropometric data of military recruits from 1907-2001 (cohorts from 1886 to 1982). The final sample is composed of 1921 recruits' records that were measured and weighed at the ages of 19-21 years old when adolescent growth had finished. The long-term anthropometric study is carried out using two approaches: a malnutrition and growth retardation approach and an inequality perspective. In the first one, we use the methodology recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) that is based on z-scores. In the second one, we implement several inequality dimensions such as the coefficient of variation (CV), percentiles and an analysis for height and BMI evolution by five socioeconomic categories. The data suggest that improvements in biological well-being were due to advances in nutrition since the 1960s. They show that infant nutrition is sensitively associated with economic growth and demographic and epidemiological changes.
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