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Adolescent Nutritional Status And Its Association With Village-Level Factors In Tanzania, Nozipho Maziya
Adolescent Nutritional Status And Its Association With Village-Level Factors In Tanzania, Nozipho Maziya
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Adolescent Nutritional Status and its Association with Village-level Factors in Tanzania
Undernutrition is associated with multiple risk factors operating at different levels, from the individual level to household and community levels. Empirical research has shown that contextual or environmental factors influence nutritional status, but very few studies have examined association between these factors and undernutrition among adolescents. This cross-sectional study used a two-level hierarchical nonlinear model to investigate the association between village-level factors and undernutrition (BMI for Age < 5th percentile of the WHO reference) among a sample of adolescents, (n=670) from 28 villages in Kilosa District, Tanzania. Our hypothesis that contextual factors are associated with undernutrition was supported. The odds …