OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of prenatal care (PNC) on the level and distribution of child stunting in three Andean countries-Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru-where expanding access to such care has been an explicit policy intervention to tackle child malnutrition in utero and during early childhood. METHODS An econometric analysis of cross-sectional Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data was...

Human childhood may be divided in to three stages Infancy, Weaning and Pre-school stage. Although breast feeding is beneficial for the optimum growth of the children, prolonged breast feeding without appropriate complementary feeding is crucial contributory factor for malnutrition among young children. Therefore, supplementation has to be implemented after four to six months to overcome malnutr...

This study investigates the changes in the extent of calorie based under nutrition and child malnutrition in Vietnam during the 1990s. The study uses anthropometric information on children to estimate the determinants of the change in child nutritional status. The paper also exploits the panel data to construct transition matrices that show the proportion of households that have changed their n...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal studies describing incidence and natural course of malnutrition are scarce. Studies defining malnutrition clinically [moderate clinical malnutrition (McM) marasmus, kwashiorkor] rather than anthropometrically are rare. Our aim was to address incidence and course of malnutrition among pre-schoolers and to compare patterns and course of clinically and anthropometrically de...

Malnutrition and disability are both major global health problems. There are an estimated one billion people worldwide living with a disability of whom some 93 million are children aged under 14 years. Worldwide, almost one billion people are malnourished. Malnutrition remains a major cause of child mortality, with the latest estimates suggesting that undernutrition causes 3.1 million child dea...

introduction: the future of any nation depends on how its children's care, according to their likely future health needs of the adult population model for healthy living and wealth has increased. one of the most pressing health diet. this study is done to aimed investigate the factors influencing malnutrition in children in the past for weight loss and weight gain can be seen today.   meth...

In the early 1990s, India and China were home to more than half the preschool children in the developing world who were malnourished, as measured by stunting or underweight.1 Since then, child malnutrition has declined in both countries but from different levels and at different paces. There are also notable differences in the concentration of child malnutrition along the state–province, rural–...

Introduction: The future of any nation depends on how its children's care, According to their likely future health needs of the adult population model for healthy living and wealth has increased. One of the most pressing health diet. This study is done to aimed investigate the factors influencing malnutrition in children in the past for weight loss and weight gain can be seen today.   Methods a...

In 2011 we published a study on how to detect the threshold for malnutrition in children, simply using their own hands and without any technical tool. The fight against malnutrition can only be reached when its measurements involve every single child, almost continuously, in the affected villages. In this paper we try to show that, thanks to our method, it is possible to use mid-upper-arm-circu...