Trends and Determinants of Child Growth Indicators in Malawi and Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals.

AIMS Public Health
Henry V Doctor, Sangwani Nkhana-Salimu

Abstract

Sustainable development goals (SGD) 2 links malnutrition, morbidity and child mortality to stunting, wasting and overweight among children under-5 years of age. Sub-Saharan Africa still registers high nutritionally insecure people. In particular, Malawi has made modest progress in improving nutritional outcomes; and still experiences a number of structural challenges leading to negative nutritional outcomes. We describe trends of under nutrition and how the effect of selected determinants of child nutrition affect Malawian children under-5 from 1992 to 2015-16; and examine the changing patterns of the effect of selected socio-demographic characteristics on stunting and underweight using data from demographic and health surveys (DHS). The analysis included 31,630 children under-5 years from 1992, 2000, 2004, 2010, and 2015-16 DHS. Our outcome measures are stunting (height/length-for-age) and underweight (weight-for-age) less than -2 SD (Z-score). We perform logistic regression to assess the relationship between selected socio-demographic characteristics with the stunting and underweight variables. Underweight decreased by 14.0% from 24.7% (1992) to 10.7% (2015-16). Stunting decreased by 23.0% from 55.6% (1992) to 32.6% (2015-16)...Continue Reading

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Aug 30, 2020·The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition·Tyler VaivadaZulfiqar A Bhutta
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