BACKGROUND Malnutrition in infants during weaning has been attributed to inappropriate complementary feeding practices and it underlies more than one-third of child mortality in Nigeria. Thus, addressing the influence of complementary feeding practice on nutritional status may be an important approach to reducing the burden of child malnutrition. This cross-sectional study investigated the asso...

This paper examines the use of nutrition and health indicators for assessment of well-being and deprivation in the developing world, arguing that child anthropometric indicators provide a reliable, interesting, and readily available data source for comparison of absolute deprivation across populations and countries. Indicators of child malnutrition shortfall⎯especially height for age and weight...

“In Colombia, violence doesn’t disappear-it transforms,” the director of the National Institute for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences said recently1 He noted the long history of political violence that has persisted in Colombia despite several peace processes, social violence in the form of children dying from malnutrition, child abuse cases numbering more than 18,000 by October of last year...

Child malnutrition is often the most common factor that causes child mortality rate. In study of malnutrition, there limited evidence on spatial analysis to identify trends and hotspots indicators contextual factors contributing geographical inequalities in malnutrition. This aimes investigate distribution heterogeneity Malnutrition across districts states India examine influence determinants w...