A logit-based multivariate decomposition analysis was used to identify contributing factors for the change in the double burden of wasting and stunting in the past 20 years. The statistical significance was declared at a P-value < 0.05. The double burden of wasting and stunting had shown a...
Specifically, all four types of PSM methods confirm a significant difference in the potential outcome variables—meaning that a child born with LBW has a significant adverse effect on the potential child health outcome variables (stunting, wasting and both). Thus, the propensity score matching ...
Malnutrition, specifically including fetal growth restriction, child stunting and wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc, along with suboptimal breastfeeding, causes 3.1 million child deaths or almost 50% of all deaths under age 5 years annually [5]. The prevalence of malnutrition is signi...
Stunting refers to both reduced physical growth and cognitive impairment, although the WHO definition focuses on the anthropometric aspect, where stunted children have a height for age that is “more than 2 standard deviations below the WHO child growth standards median” [5]. However, children who...
[100,101,102] took place in malaria-endemic regions, which may also have caused confounding, since malaria has been identified as a risk factor for stunting and wasting [103]. Reasons such as these may partly explain the conflicting results of studies that have tried to evaluate whether a ...
Although implications for malnutrition are not fully clear, synergism with infection presents a threat to child survival, meaning that nutritional monitoring is paramount. Emergency responses screen for severe acute malnutrition (wasting, measured as low weight for height or mid-upper arm circumference),...
Among the 34 indicators are 2.1.1.(a) Underweight, 4.4.1 Youth with ICT, and 2.2.2 Wasting with values of 0.69, 0.506, and 0.502 (see Appendix Table A1). This shows that stunting is strongly related to the indicators of underweight, youth that have access to technology, and wasting in...