Background India has committed itself to accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) by 2030. Meeting these goals would require prioritizing and targeting specific areas …

Child stunting prevalence is primarily used as an indicator of impeded physical growth due
to undernutrition and infections, which also increases the risk of mortality, morbidity and …

Undernutrition and diarrhea cause stunted growth and poor child health. Refrigerators allow
consumption of perishable foods and reduce food contaminations causing diarrhea. This …

The most common measures of childhood undernutrition are based on anthropometric
measures such as height-for-age (stunting/chronic undernutrition) and weight-for-height …

Globally, as well as in India, the prevalence of stunting is a commonly used metric to quantify
undernutrition among children. Stunting prevalence is the proportion of children younger …

Background Undernutrition among under-five children is one of the intractable public health
problems in Ethiopia. More recently, Ethiopia faced a rising problem of the double burden of …

Introduction Childhood undernutrition has been investigated extensively in previous
literature but gender inequality detailing the burden of undernutrition has not been …

Ethiopia is currently known to be the most food-insecure country in sub-Saharan Africa,
where childhood undernutrition remains endemic. While attention is increasingly being paid …

Abstract Objectives Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) and Extended CIAF
(ECIAF) allow for the identification of simultaneous presence of two or more types of …

The 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) growth standard—based on the Multi Growth
Reference Study (MGRS)—is a universal standard for healthy height and weight of young …