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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1994 40(5):307-311; doi:10.1093/tropej/40.5.307
© 1994 by Oxford University Press
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Determinants of Nutrition Status Among Children in the Eastern Region of Ghana

R. Brugha, MB, MSc (Community Health), MFPHMI*, and J. Kevany, MD, FFPHMI**

*Holy Family Hospital P.O. Box 13, Nkawkaw, Ghana
**Department of Community Health, Trinity College Dublin, 2, Eire

Correspondence: Dr Ruairi Brugha, Public Health Medicine, c/o Medical Staffing Department, Mersey Regional Health Authority, Hamilton House, 24 Pall Mall, Liverpool L3 6AL

A cross-sectional survey of children's weights was included in a population study which was designed to identify and measure the determinants of immunization status of 12–18-month-old children of 294 mothers in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Birth weight, among a subgroup of 91 children where this information was available from the mothers' Road To Health cards, was the variable with which current weight-for-age Z scores was most strongly associated (r=0.38). Associations of current weight-for-age with certain socio-economic variables, at or close to statistically significant levels, corresponded with similar or stronger associations of birth weight with these same socio-economic variables. Cross-sectional studies of young children, to identify associations and possible determinants of nutrition status, are more informative where there is a high Road To Health card coverage and where birth weights have been recorded on these cards.


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