Modeling spatial determinants of initiation of breastfeeding in Ethiopia: A geographically weighted regression analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization (WHO) encourages breastfeeding to begin within the first hour after birth in order to save children's lives. In Ethiopia, different studies are done on the prevalence and determinants of breastfeeding initiation, up to our knowledge, the spatial distribution and the spatial determinants of breast feeding initiation over time are not investigated. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to assess spatial variation and its spatial determinant of delayed initiation of breastfeeding in Ethiopia using Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR).

Methods

A cross-sectional study was undertaken using the nationally representative 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) dataset. Global Moran's I statistic was used to measure whet

SUBMITTER: Hailegebreal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9477376 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature