BACKGROUND Malnutrition remains an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality; the levels of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria are among the highest in the world. The literature supports many direct and indirect causes of malnutrition, but few studies have examined the link between maternal care during pregnancy and childbirth and childhood malnutrition. This study examines this poten...

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...

According to the “Convention on Rights of Child,” every baby and child has right goodnutrition. Dietary practices especially during first thousand days life from gestation two years ofage have a permanent impact life. Breast feeding up 6 months exclusively followed bycomplementary in addition breast milk is an important aspect person’s physical mentaldevelopment. Deficiency or excesses intake l...

INTRODUCTION Food availability and access are strongly affected by seasonality in Ethiopia. However, there are little data on seasonal variation in Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices and malnutrition among 6-23 months old children in different agro-ecological zones of rural Ethiopia. METHODS Socio-demographic, anthropometry and IYCF indicators were assessed in post- and pre-harve...

In Mexico, the potential impact on child malnutrition from a nutritional supplement (papilla) delivered through a conditional transfer program (Oportunidades) was attenuated by problems of household utilization. A behavioral change through communication intervention was developed to improve supplement utilization. Our study assessed the efficacy of this intervention through the results of a ran...

Malnutrition is associated with an inadequate diet, poor health and sanitation services and inadequate care for young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this issue [Haddad, L., Alderman, H., Appleton, S., Song, L., Yohannes, Y., 2003. Reducing child malnutrition: how far does income growth take us? World Bank Econ. R...

IBFAN is convinced that child malnutrition is the result of widespread global social and economic inequity,the marginalization of poor communities, as well as women’s disempowerment and lack of access to productive resources. It leads to lack of affordable health care, inadequate support for optimal infant and young child feeding practices, lack of sufficient water for drinking and sanitation, ...

OBJECTIVES To assess and quantify the magnitude of inequalities in under-five child malnutrition, particularly those ascribable to socio-economic status METHODS Data on 4187 under-five children were derived from the Nigeria 2003 Demographic and Health Survey. Household asset index was used as the main indicator of socio-economic status. Socio-economic inequality in chronic childhood malnutrit...

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...