Background and aims To compute reliable estimates of stunting, wasting and underweight
along with their determinants in under 5 children from Developing Countries. Methods Out of …

Malnutrition is one of the greatest health challenges that affects about 2 billion people
globally. Multiple factors including poverty, food insecurity, maternal health and nutritional …

Previous studies have suggested that a toddler stunting is closely related to maternal
characteristics. Working mothers, as a group, are vulnerable to having a stunted toddler. The …

Background Almost one-third of children under 5 years old in Indonesia suffer from stunting.
Stunting can be prevented optimally during pregnancy as the initial phase of the first 1000 …

The study aimed to analyze the most appropriate maternal characteristics for stunting
prevention policies. The study employed secondary data from the 2017 Indonesia Nutritional …

South Asia continues to be the global hub for child undernutrition with 35% of children still
stunted in 2017. This paper aimed to identify factors associated with stunting among children …

Background Infants born with low birth weight (LBW), ie less than 2500g, is considered an
important factor of malnutrition in Asia. In India, research related to this issue is still …

Background The child nutritional status of a country is a potential indicator of socioeconomic
development. Child malnutrition is still the leading cause of severe health and welfare …

Background: Undernutrition accounts for at least 50% of the annual global under-five
mortality burden. Although disparities in the childhood stunting between urban and rural …

What explains the underlying causes of rural–urban differentials in severe acute malnutrition
(SAM) among under-five children is poorly exploited, operationalized, studied and …