Determinants Of The Nutrition And Health Status Of Children In Rural Ethiopia A Longitudinal Analysis

This study tried to see the determinants of nutritional status of children using longitudinalrndata from fifteen villages of rural Ethiopia. An attempt was also made to see if there are anyrnsignificant interactions between mother’s education and community characteristics. Byrnemploying random effects procedure, both height-for-age and weight-for-height z-scores werernregressed on various private and public determinants. The results show that age of the child,rnparental height and primary education, existence of permanent partner to the householdrnhead, household size and composition, and safe water source of the household are anrnimportant determinants of child nutritional outcomes. However, most of the interaction termsrnbetween mother’s education and community variables (such as access to healthcare and therncommunities’ safe source of water) failed to be significant implying partly the unimportancernof these community variables and partly the low level of maternal education in the sampledrnhouseholds. But for the significant term in the WHZ regression (i.e the interaction betweenrnaccess to health care and mother’s attainment of at least a year of primary education but notrnhigher), one may argue that having at least a year of primary education is a substitute tornaccess to health care

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