In addition, prior studies indicate that a considerable burden of poor school achievement among African children is attributable to hearing or middle ear problems [ 21, 22].
For example, if the higher rate in very young children is attributable to de novo disease, then the increased prevalence will continue as this cohort ages.
In the '50s, the best-selling novel "The Bad Seed," which later became a Broadway play and then a movie, made the argument that severe behavioral problems in children were attributable to genetic bad luck rather than parental ineptitude.
Further research should reveal if the problems of this latter group of children are attributable to not being ready for learning (pre) academic skills or to still being too playful, or whether it concerns serious learning and developmental problems.
In a pooled analysis of 9 studies that together collected diarrhea and growth data on 1393 children, the odds of stunting at 24 months increased multiplicatively by 2.5% per episode of diarrhea, and 25% of all stunting among 24-month-old children was attributable to having 5 or more episodes of diarrhea in the first 2 years of life [ 17].
Recent estimates suggest that nearly 3% of neonatal mortality and 17% of under-five child mortality is attributable to diarrhea.
Developmental Systems Theory suggests that child development is attributable to "dynamic person-context relationships" that are characterized by organizational complexity across multiple levels of analysis [ 7, 8].
Only a handful of research designs are able to address whether the association between breastfeeding and indices of child psychological adjustment is attributable to a causal influence of breastfeeding or arises because of unmeasured confounds including genetic influences shared between mother and child [ 15, 16, 20, 31– 31].
This means that more than half the child mortality burden in the Sahel is attributable to child malnutrition, which causes about 225,000 child deaths annually.
This reduction of children's lead exposure is attributable to the state's comprehensive approach.
