Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Md. Faruq Hossain,Abu Sharif Md. Mahbub-E-Kibria and Md. Raihan Sarkar Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 60 ISBN: 9783659441752
Описание
Women’s individual level fertility is a major public health concern and is recognized as a serious problem in our country. The nutritional status of children is a sensitive indicator of a country’s socioeconomic characteristics as well as demographic characteristics. The research work used Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011 (BDHS 2011) data. In this study, some socioeconomic and demographic variables like mother’s education level, father’s education level, father’s occupation, wealth status, sex of child, age of child, mother age, mothers currently pregnant, preceding birth interval, place of residence and region were used. ANOVA F-test shows that there exists strong positive association with stunting between two continuous variables number of siblings and child age (in months). The results from this study provide evidence for a relation between women’s individual level fertility and nutritional status of children in Bangladesh. These findings persisted, even after...
