Nutritional status and concomitant factors of stunting among pre-school children in Malda, India: A micro-level study using a multilevel approach.
Rayhan S KAnuradha BanerjeeMd Juel RanaPublished in: BMC public health (2021)
Special attention needs to be placed on the modifiable risk factors of childhood stunting. Policy interventions should direct community health workers to encourage women as well as their male partners to increase birth interval using various family planning practices, provide extra care for low birth weight baby, that can help to reduce childhood stunting.
Keyphrases
- low birth weight
- healthcare
- preterm infants
- risk factors
- human milk
- preterm birth
- early life
- public health
- primary care
- palliative care
- working memory
- pregnancy outcomes
- gestational age
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- childhood cancer
- physical activity
- mental health
- type diabetes
- pregnant women
- metabolic syndrome
- affordable care act
- hepatitis c virus
- hiv testing
- adipose tissue
- skeletal muscle