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Prevalence and Determinants of Chronic Malnutrition Among Under-5 Children in Ethiopia
ISSN: 1929 - 4247
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Prevalence and Determinants of Chronic Malnutrition Among Under-5 Children in Ethiopia
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Publisher: Lifescience Global Inc.
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Abstract
Objectives: This paper studied the prevalence and determinants of chronic malnutrition in under-5 children from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey dataset. Methods: The 2011 EDHS collected data on the nutritional status of children by measuring the height and weight of all children under age five in the sampled households, and calculated anthropometric indicators using the new WHO (2006) growth standards. Children whose height-for-age Z-score was below minus two standard deviations (−2 SD) from the median of the WHO reference population are considered stunted or chronically malnourished and if Z-scores are between −3 SD ≤ Z-
