Beyond personal factors: Multilevel determinants of childhood stunting in Indonesia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stunting is still a major public health problem in low- and middle-income countries, including Indonesia. Previous studies have reported the complexities associated with understanding the determinants of stunting. This study aimed to examine the household-, subdistrict- and province-level determinants of stunting in Indonesia using a multilevel hierarchical mixed effects model.

Methods

We analyzed data for 8045 children taken from the 2007 and 2014 waves of the Indonesian Family and Life Surveys (IFLS). We included individual-, family-/household- and community-level variables in the analyses. A multilevel mixed effects model was employed to take into account the hierarchical structure of the data. Moreover, the model captured the effect of unobserved household-, s

SUBMITTER: Mulyaningsih T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8604318 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature