The relative importance of households as a source of variation in child malnutrition: a multilevel analysis in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child malnutrition remains a major public health issue in India. Along with myriad upstream and social determinants of these adverse outcomes, recent studies have highlighted regional differences in mean child malnutrition rates. This research helps policy makers look between urban and rural communities and states to take a population-level approach to addressing the root causes of child malnutrition. However, one gap in this between-population approach has been the omission of households as a unit of analysis. Households could represent important sources of variation in child malnutrition within communities, districts, and states.

Methods

Using the fourth round of India's National Family Health Survey from 2015 to 2016, we analyzed four and five-level multilevel

SUBMITTER: Jain A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8507104 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature