BACKGROUND The study attempts to develop an ordinal logistic regression (OLR) model to identify the determinants of child malnutrition instead of developing traditional binary logistic regression (BLR) model using the data of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2004. METHODS Based on weight-for-age anthropometric index (Z-score) child nutrition status is categorized into three groups-sev...

A growing body of evidence suggests that supplementary feeding programs have a positive effect on reducing malnutrition prevalence in developing countries. In India, despite substantial funding of its early childhood development program, which has a large supplementary feeding component, levels of child malnutrition have fallen only slightly. Using propensity score matching to identify impacts ...

Introduction. Despite being an important health problem in developing countries, there is little information available on factors affecting the severe acute malnutrition, especially nondietary factors. Objective. To study the impact of various factors, especially nondietary ones affecting directly or indirectly the weight gain in children with severe acute malnutrition. Method. A total of 300 c...

BACKGROUND Although there are inequalities in child health and survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the influence of distal determinants such as geographic location on children's nutritional status is still unclear. We investigate the impact of geographic location on child nutritional status by mapping the residual net effect of malnutrition while accounting for important risk fa...

To assess the nutritional status of children under 5, a survey was conducted in the under-privileged community of Mahmoodabad. Of over 1,000 children, three-fourth had varying grades of protein calorie malnutrition. The prevalence of grade III malnutrition was higher in children in their 2nd year and among those belonging to families of more than four persons. On the average, a child was report...

CONTEXT The association between unintended pregnancy and maternal and child health has been well documented. However, the relationship of unintended pregnancy with child malnutrition is not well understood, and may be important in countries such as Bangladesh that have high levels of these events. METHODS Data from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey on 6,506 last-born, singleto...

BACKGROUND Child malnutrition continues to be the leading public health problem in developing countries. In Ethiopia, malnutrition is a leading cause of child illness and death. Recently the composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) has been implemented to measure the prevalence of malnutrition. This index presents a more complete picture compared with the previous conventional indices. ...

INTRODUCTION In India, approximately 20 percent of children under the age of four suffer from severe malnutrition, while half of all the children suffer from undernutrition. The contributions of knowledge and attitudes of nutrition-conscious behaviors of the mothers to childhood malnutrition has been unclear. The purpose of this study was to explore maternal knowledge of the causes of malnutrit...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of malnutrition in children for all Brazilian municipalities. METHODS A multilevel logistic regression model was used to estimate the individual probability of malnutrition in 5,507 Brazilian municipalities in 2006, in terms of predictive factors grouped according to hierarchical levels. The response variable was child malnutrition (children aged from six ...

Malnutrition in children and women is a major publichealth problem in most of the developing countries and Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) is more common among underfive year children. Childhood malnutrition is major underlying cause (>50%) of the under 5 year children deaths. Every year 7.6 million children die such preventable malnutrition and its related causes. Similarly, next prevalent c...