Nepal has one of the world’s highest Helen Keller International (HKI) and its rates of chronic malnutrition among partners implemented a study in Baitadi women and young children. The govdistrict in the Far Western Region of Neernment has developed a comprehenpal to test the impact of a multisectoral sive, multisectoral National Nutrition food production model on a range of food Action Plan (NN...

In 2004-05, Niger suffered a food crisis during which global attention focused on high levels of acute malnutrition among children. In response, decentralised emergency nutrition programmes were introduced into much of southern Niger. Child malnutrition, however, is a chronic problem and its links with food production and household food security are complex. This qualitative, anthropological st...

Background: The term malnutrition generally refers to both under-nutrition and over-nutrition, but this study uses the term to refer solely to a deficiency of nutrition. In Ethiopia, child malnutrition is one of the most serious public health problem and the highest in the world. The purpose of the present study was to identify the high risk factors of malnutrition and test different statistica...

BACKGROUND Studies examining the intricate interplay between poverty, female literacy, child malnutrition, and child mortality are rare in demographic literature. Given the recent focus on Millennium Development Goals 4 (child survival) and 5 (maternal health), we explored whether the geographic regions that were underprivileged in terms of wealth, female literacy, child nutrition, or safe deli...

Malnutrition plagues a disproportionately large number of children in India compared with most other countries. National-level data on child malnutrition in India have, however, been scarce. Recognizing this gap, India’s 1992–93 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) collected anthropometric data on the height and weight of children below four years of age. The NFHS is based on a large, nationall...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the economic impact of chronic, acute and global malnutrition in Peru. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study, through an econometric model, estimated the economic impact of child malnutrition in two time horizons (incidental retrospective and prospective) during 2011, considering malnutrition-associated costs of health, education and productivity for the Peruvian economy. In...

Child malnutrition has long been recognized as a serious problem in India, but national-level data on levels and causes of malnutrition have been scarce. Hence, during 1992-93, a National Family Health Survey was carried out to examine the levels and determinants of child malnutrition in the country. More specifically, this survey estimated the levels of child malnutrition and examined the ef...

BACKGROUND  Childhood malnutrition is an important risk factor for child mortality and underlies close to 50% of child deaths worldwide. Previous studies have found an association between maternal depression and child malnutrition, but it is not known whether this association exists in Botswana. In addition, previous studies excluded non-maternal primary caregivers (PCGs). It is unclear whether...

Despite sustained economic growth, reduction in money metric poverty and introduction of innovative health programmes in last two decades, the reduction in child malnutrition has been sluggish in India. By 2005-06, about half of the children continued to be malnourished with large variation across states. Though empirical research has established the household wealth and maternal characteristic...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a prevalent public health concern in Ghana. While studies have identified factors that influence child malnutrition and related inequalities in Ghana, very little efforts have been made to decompose these inequalities across various household characteristics. This study examined the influence of socioeconomic factors on inequality in child malnutrition using a decompo...