Background: Child malnutrition is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. Surprisingly, the
highest level of stunting is found in food surplus areas of the country. Objective: To identify …

Strong preference for sons in South Asia is well documented, but evidence on female
disadvantage in childhood feeding, health care, and nutritional status is inconclusive. This …

As measured by degree of stunting, close to half of India's children suffer from chronic
malnutrition and about a quarter from severe chronic malnutrition. Data from the 1998–1999 …

ObjectiveTo determine how much of the variation in nutritional status of Bangladeshi
children under 5 years old can be attributed to the socio-economic status of the family …

The aim of this paper is to assess the spatial distribution of nutritional status of children of
less than three years through Z-scores of weight-for-age, height-for-age and weight-for …

Objective To examine sex differences in nutritional status in relation to feeding practices
over time in a cohort of HIV‐exposed children participating in a complementary feeding …

The children living in rural areas of India disproportionately suffer from malnutrition
compared with their urban counterparts. The present article analyses the individual …

The object of this study is to report on determinants of stunting, defined as low height for age,
among children in the occupied Palestinian territories. Using 2006–2007 cross sectional …

NFHS-1 results indicate that the Government of India's Universal Immunization Programme
(UIP) has met with limited success in Madhya Pradesh. Only 29 percent of children age 12 …

Background: The burden of malnutrition in Ethiopia is the second highest in sub Saharan
Africa. According to the recently released Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey report …