Background In 2019, 144 million under-five-year-old children were stunted, and 47 million
were wasted globally. In Ethiopia, approximately 350,000 children are estimated to die each …

Background: Malnutrition among under-five children is an important public health problem in
developing countries, and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in India, hence the …

Being a developing nation, rural India is still facing a serious health problem in form of
undernutrition particularly among young children. To optimize this problem, the Central …

Undernutrition is considered to be a serious public health problem in most of the developing
countries. Globally, the anthropometric measures are widely used to estimate the magnitude …

Undernutrition in childhood is a crucial public health issue in Ethiopia. Yet, more than an
assessment of undernutrition using conventional index is needed to conclude the overall …

Stunting, wasting and underweight—the three traditional indicators of undernourishment
among children—provide mutually non-exclusive categories of anthropometric failures: low …

Background: Nutritional status of children is of paramount interest of all health surveys world-
wide. Anthropometry is an important parameter for assessing nutritional status of children of …

Introduction: NFHS-5 Telangana reports underweight, stunting, and wasting among under 5
children as 31.8%, 33.1%, and 21.7% respectively. Composite Index of Anthropometric …

Undernutrition is a silent emergency resulting from a combination of various social,
economic, educational, demographic, and morbidity factors. This systematic and meta …

Background: Malnutrition that occurs in early period of life caused the vulnerable to
diseases, cognitive disorder and failed to thrive. Failed to thrive decide from the result of …