Contribution of malnutrition to infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Malnutrition contributes to 45% of all childhood deaths globally, but these modelled estimates lack direct measurements in countries with high malnutrition and under-5 mortality rates. We investigated malnutrition's role in infant and child deaths in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network.

Methods

We analysed CHAMPS data from seven sites (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and South Africa) collected between 2016 and 2023. An expert panel assessed each death to determine whether malnutrition was an underlying, antecedent or immediate cause or other significant condition. Malnutrition was further classified based on postmortem anthropometry using WHO growth standards for underweight (z-scores for weight-fo

SUBMITTER: Madewell ZJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11624724 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature