Child nutritional status in poor Ethiopian households : the role of gender, assets and location

MEKONNEN, Alemu
et al

Publication Date 

2005
55 p

This paper explores some of the less obvious factors affecting children’s nutritional status in Ethiopia. It is based on information collected in 2002 from 1001 households with eight-year-old children mainly from food insecure communities in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP and Addis Ababa Regional States

Document No:Working Paper No 26 

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Keywords 

Health; issues: malnutrition; systems: health information systems; Global picture; poverty; Politics government and economics; socio-economic; Disability and community; family & caregivers; Development/ Humanitarian; rural development; urban development

Regional Focus 

Africa (AFRO)

Country focus 

Ethiopia

Language 

English

Type of material 

text

Content type 

research; paper

Publisher 

Young Lives Project