The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition and Population in the East Asia and Pacific Region

Saadah, Fadia

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“…Rural children were less likely than urban children to be stunted (Rahman and Sultana, 2019). Another research conducted in Indonesia in 1999 indicates a similar form of outcome, with 32% of rural children malnourished vs 27% of urban children (Saadah et al , 1999). Sickness is one of the biggest threats to the prevalence of malnutrition, diarrhea and fever (Poda et al , 2017).…”

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Gender differences in child nutrition status of Bangladesh: a multinomial modeling approach

Haq

Hossain

Parvin

et al. 2021

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Purpose Malnutrition is one of the serious public health problems especially for children and pregnant women in developing countries such as Bangladesh. This study aims to identify the risk factors associated with child nutrition for both male and female children in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted among 23,099 mothers or caretakers of children under five years of age from a nationally representative survey named Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 2019. This study used chi-square test statistic for bivariate analysis and multinomial logistic regression was used to evaluate the adjusted effects of those covariates on child nutritional status. Findings The prevalence of severely malnourished, nourishment was higher for males than females (5.3% vs 5.1%, 77.4% vs 76.8%) while moderately malnourished were higher for females (18.1% vs 17.4%). The findings from the multinomial model insinuated that the mother’s education level, wealth index, region, early child development, mother’s functional difficulties, child disability, reading children's books and diarrhea had a highly significant effect on moderate and severe malnutrition for male children. For the female children model, factors such as mother’s education level, wealth index, fever, child disability, rural, diarrhea, early child development and reading less than three books were significant for moderate and severe malnutrition. Originality/value There is a solution to any kind of problem and malnutrition is not an exceptional health problem. So, to overcome this problem, policymakers should take effective measures to improve maternal education level, wealth status, child health.

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confidence: 91%