OBJECTIVE Wasting and stunting may occur together at the individual child level; however, their shared geographic distribution and correlates remain unexplored. Understanding shared and separate correlates may inform interventions. We aimed to assess the spatial codistribution of wasting, stunting and underweight and investigate their shared correlates among children aged 6-59 months in Somalia...

OBJECTIVE Despite documented associations between stunting and cognitive development, few population-level studies have measured both indicators in individual children or assessed stunting's associations with other developmental domains. DESIGN Meta-analysis using publicly available data from fifteen Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS-4) to assess the association between stunting and de...

BACKGROUND This study's purpose was to understand associations between water, sanitation, and child growth. METHODS We estimated stunting (height-for-age Z score <-2 SD) and thinness (BMI-Z <-2 SD) risk ratios using data from 7,715 Ethiopian, Indian, Peruvian, and Vietnamese children from the Young Lives study. RESULTS In unadjusted models, household access to improved water and toilets was...

There is increasing agreement among the nutrition community about the use of length/height-for-age as the indicator to monitor the long-term impact of chronic nutritional deficiencies. Stunting, an indicator of linear growth failure, has both long- and short-term consequences affecting growth and development and adult work potential. The number of stunted children in sub-Saharan Africa is expec...

OBJECTIVES Increasing evidence suggests that water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices affect linear growth in early childhood. We determined the association between household access to water, sanitation and personal hygiene practices with stunting among children aged 0-23 months in rural India. SETTING India. PARTICIPANTS A total of 10 364, 34 639 and 1282 under-2s who participated in...

BACKGROUND Stunting, a chronic condition, is an underlying cause of child morbidity and mortality in Nepal. This study intends to identify the factors causing stunting among children that will help to prioritize the strategies at the district level. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to identify the risk factors for stunting among children of age between 6 to 59 months. METHODS The st...

BACKGROUND Monitoring of the progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of malnourished children before year 2015 relies on the estimated trends in child stunting and underweight from the WHO. METHODS Two methods are used for assessing the reliability of the WHO estimates of trends in child stunting. One method is to estimate changes over time with an alt...

BACKGROUND Adequate nutrition is needed to ensure optimum growth and development of infants and young children. Understanding of the risk factors for stunting and severe stunting among children aged less than five years in North Maluku province is important to guide Indonesian government public health planners to develop nutrition programs and interventions in a post conflict area. The purpose ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition (undernutrition and overnutrition) is a major public health problem in Ghana -affecting growth and development of individuals and the nation. Stunting and overweight are of particular interest, as recent national surveys show a rising trend of overnutrition and stubbornly high burden of stunting among Ghanaian children. There are currently no data on the simultaneous occ...