Selected socio-economic environmental, maternal, and child factors associated with the nutritional status of infants and toddlers

Abstract

The study examined all children under the age of 3 years from ten urban slums in Baroda, India, and from nine rural villages in Gujarat state. The data suggest that the nutritional status of infants is affected more by maternal nutritional status than by other socio-economic, environmental, and child factors. Infants had better nutritional status than toddlers, and male children better than female. -M.Amos