Determinants of malnutrition among urban slum children in Bangladesh
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Determinants of malnutrition among urban slum children in Bangladesh
BACKGROUND This paper analyzes the role of child, maternal and household variables on weight-for-age nutritional status of children in the largest urban slum of Bangladesh. METHODS We use anthropometric weight-for-age nutrition status of children for an ordered logistic analysis. Our dataset gives us the advantage of segregating health knowledge into three indices: health-seeking practices in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2191-1991
DOI: 10.1186/s13561-015-0059-1