The objective of the current analysis is to see the factors responsible for malnutrition in children (under-5 years) in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. In this study binary logistic model is applied to 1831 observations of urban and 3427 observations of rural areas. The Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) is constructed and used as an indicator of malnutrition. It is estimated...

India has a higher prevalence of child malnutrition, as manifested in stunting and underweight, than any other large country and was home to about one-third of all malnourished children in the world in the early 2000s. There are, however, substantial inter-state differences in child malnutrition and also in the (generally meagre) progress made since the early 1990s. The persistence of widesprea...

Aim: Aim of study was to identify the effects of certain maternal and socioeconomic risk factors associated in children less than 5 years of age. Study Design: Case Control Study Place and duration of study: Department of pediatrics, WAPDA Teaching Hospital complex Lahore and Asad eye and children clinic from 24.5.2011 to 24.11.2011 Methodology: A total of 100 children were included in which 50...

This paper contributes to the analysis of the relation between child malnutrition and morbidity by providing a comprehensive assessment of the mutual impacts of the two phenomena. We investigate the synergistic relationship between malnutrition and morbidity among infants in Nairobi's poor urban settlements. We use data from 3,459 children enrolled in an ongoing Maternal and Child Health Longit...

Undernutrition, a chief child killer in developing countries, has been a major public health problem in Haiti. Following the 2010 disasters (earthquake and cholera) and the intensive relief efforts to address them, we sought to determine the trends of child undernutrition in Haiti using data from the 2005-06 Haiti Demographic and Health Survey (HDHS) and from a Standardized Monitoring and Asses...

THE EXISTENCE of a serious nutritional problem in Venezuela, especially among the children, was recognized several years ago. A group of pediatricians undertook one of the earliest studies of this problem in Latin America. The term "Sindrome Pluricarencial Infantil" was coined by them to designate what is now called "Kwashiorkor." Cases were studied mostly in hospitalized patients and treated w...

OBJECTIVE To assess associations between maternal child marriage (marriage before age 18) and morbidity and mortality of infants and children under 5 in India. Design Cross-sectional analyses of nationally representative household sample. Generalised estimating equation models constructed to assess associations. Adjusted models included maternal and child demographics and maternal body mass ind...

This data article presents child nutritional status and its socioeconomic determinants in Ethiopia with special reference to Nonno District, Oromia Region. As recommended by WHO (2006) [1], the nutritional status in this data article is based on three indices (height-for-age, weight-for-height and weight-for-age) for the children in this survey. The data was obtained from four hundred eight (40...