TY  - Type of reference 
TI  - Individual, Family and Contextual Determinants of Malnutrition among Children Under Five in Cameroon 
AU  - Jean-Robert Rwenge Mburano 
AU  - Aoudou Njingouo Mounchingam 
AB  - Child malnutrition remains a major public health problem around the world, particularly in Africa. In Cameroon, for example, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), carried out in 2018, shows that three out of ten children under five are victims of malnutrition. The objective of this study is to find the individual, family and community factors associate with this phenomenon. The methodology used to achieve it relies mainly on data from the abovementioned survey and the multivariate multilevel models. The results of the study showed that, all things being equal, the children most affected by malnutrition are those whose two parents are uneducated or poorly educated and whose mothers are not exposed to media and autonomy in decision-making. These children are male, have already celebrated their first birthday, were born with a low weight, were recently anemic or ill and are separated from their previous siblings by less than 24 months. Likewise, the results of the study revealed that these children live in poor households and in ethnically homogeneous communities and these have no or little exposure to media. In view of the inter-community and intra-community variances, individual and family characteristics are the factors which most explain the variation in child malnutrition in the studied milieu. Future interventions in this area should take into account the factors highlighted in this study. 
DO  - 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0728 
JF  - Biostatistics and Health Sciences 
KW  - Child malnutrition,  Multivariate Multilevel Model,  Stata,  Melogit,  Cameroon, Malnutrition des enfants,  Modèles Multivariés Multiniveaux,  Stata,  Melogit,  Cameroun,  
L1  - http://www.openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/iste_biostat21v2n2_1.pdf 
LA  - en 
PB  - ISTE OpenScience 
DA  - 2021/09/3 
SN  - 2632-8291 
TT  - Déterminants Individuels, Familiaux et Contextuels de la Malnutrition des Enfants de moins de cinq ans au Cameroun 
UR  - http://www.openscience.fr/Individual-Family-and-Contextual-Determinants-of-Malnutrition-among-Children 
IS  - Issue 2 
VL  - 2 
ER  -