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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1995 41(2):89-98; doi:10.1093/tropej/41.2.89
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Determinants of Nutritional Status in South-west Uganda

Venanzio Vella*, Andrew Tomkins*, John Nviku** and Tom Marshall***

*Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street London WCIN IEH, UK
**Uganda Ministry of Health PO Box 8, Entebbe, Uganda
***Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street London WCIE7HT, UK

In a cross-sectional survey carried out of 4320 children 0–59 months old in South-west Uganda various socio-economic and environmental factors were related to poor nutritional status.

Diarrhoea was strongly associated with all the anthropometric parameters examined, suggesting a bidirectional influence of diarrhoea on malnutrition and of malnutrition on diarrhoea. The other most important variables independently associated with one or more anthropometric parameters were: distance from a health unit, living in a household not able to hire labour, and whose members worked on other people's land, religion, parental education, crowding conditions, sanitation, acreage, ownership of cow, father's occupation, birth order, ethnicity, and prolonged breastfeeding.

This data indicates that a range of specific interventions are likely to be necessary for the improvement of nutrition in this community.


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