A Training for Conducting Survey on Health System and Population Studies

Abstract

Nutritional status of child is a sensitive indicator of a country’s health and economic condition. It is caused by the impact of demographic, socioeconomic, environmental and health-related factors on nutritional status among children in Bangladesh. Child age, mother’s education, father’s education, father’s occupation, family wealth index was discovered to be the most important contributing factors to malnutrition. It was found that pregnant women who are underweight have a higher risk of parental mortality and having babies with low birth weight. Underweight of women and children was very common in both the rural and urban areas of Bangladesh.