dc.contributor.author | Pembe, Lucy M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-04T11:18:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-04T11:18:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/108849 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study analyzes how socio economic and demographic factors in uence Nutritional
status of Kenyan children aged 0-59 months. Since malnutrition is classi ed as a critical
health problem in sub-saharan Africa, this study answers this question through a secondary
data sample of 17911 children that were a representation of the whole population through
strati ed random sampling method. To obtain the results, an ordinal logistic regression
model is tted with Nutritional status of children being the response variable and the socio
economic and demographic factors as the predictors. Weighting of the sample was done
through the women individual sample. The results have shown that there is a signi cant
relationship between the socio economic status of mothers and their children’s nutritional
status. All the predictors are signi cant in explaining the response variable except for
the mother’s age. The analysis of results is done using the odds ratio on the categories of
the predictors with reference to other group. Mother’s aged between15-19 have a higher
percentage (30%) of children who are stunted while those in the age bracet45-49 have a
higher percentage of normal nourished children. Rift valley province is seen to be leading
with the number of children that are stunted followed by Coast province. Mothers with
no education are more likely to have stunting children than those that have at least some
primary education. Wealth index is also seen to play a big role in the nutritional status of
children with those from the poorest index being 46% more likely to either be wasted or
stunted, and those from the richest family being 59% less likely to be wasted or stunted. A
mother that does not watch television, listens to radio or read newspapers is 13% more
likely to have stunted children compared to that who does. The Kenyan vision 2030 aims
at achieving good health and adequate nutrition, the study therefore recommends for more
studies to be done on the prevalence of obesity. Our main target as a country is to rich a
statistical zero on malnutrition | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Socio-Economic and Demographic Determinants | en_US |
dc.title | Modelling Mothers’ Socio-Economic and Demographic Determinants of Nutritional Health of Children Under Five in Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.supervisor | Chumba, Isaac K | |