Determinants of nutritional status of women and children in Ethiopia.

Abstract

All of the national surveys on child nutrition and small-scale studies on women nutrition were descriptive in nature and limited to analysis of associations between nutritional status with certain nutrition-related variables. Few local studies have been done on risk factors of malnutrition in children and most of these studies are based on small-scale survey data concentrated in certain regions. The present study is based on national data from the 2000 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with reference to the 13447 women age 15-49 years and 9768 children under five. The general objective of this study is to examine the impact of socioeconomic and demographic factors on maternal and child nutritional status using multivariate analysis. This study also examines the association of exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding with stunting among children under age five. (excerpt)