Prevalence of undernutrition and associated factors among street adolescents in adama town, oromia regional state, Ethiopia, 2023: A cross sectional study.

Tsinukal TesfayeEbissa Bayana KebedeVinod BagilkarFentahun Meseret

Published in: PloS one (2024)

In conculusion, the prevalence of undernutrition (thinness, stunting or both together) was high among street adolescents. To enhance street adolecents' nutritional status, targeted nutritional treatments, providing health services and good hygiene and sanitatios practices are urgently needed.

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