| dc.creator |
Ludovick, Victorina |
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| dc.date |
2020-04-28T07:51:35Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-04-28T07:51:35Z |
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| dc.date |
2014 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2021-05-05T08:08:25Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2021-05-05T08:08:25Z |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/11192/3051 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/11192/3051 |
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| dc.description |
A Dissertation submitted to Mzumbe University – Dar es Salaam Business School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Award of the Degree of Master of Business Administration Corporate Management(CM) of Mzumbe University.
2014 |
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| dc.description |
The purpose of this study was to identify and determine the risk factors contributing to the persistence of malnutrition among children under the age of 5 years in Kibaha District
Council. Across sectional study was conducted. The respondents were parents/caretakers and health workers. The Sample consisted of 40 Health workers (n=40), and 60parents/Caretakers(n=60) recruited concurrently among the under-five children attending Kibaha Reproductive and Child Health Clinic on a monthly basis. Data collection was done using a combination of a review of records (child clinic registers and child clinic cards), interviews; observations and structured questionnaires. Factors that were found to be significantly associated with the persistence of under fives malnutrition were; level of education of the parents, marital status, sex and age of the parents and care takers. However clinic cards and registers revealed that low birth weight and inadequate Vitamin A supplementation were highly associated with malnutrition.
Other findings from this study suggest that Socio-economic factors such as unemployment, poverty, inadequate parents/caretakers knowledge about recommended infant and child feeding practices, the child raised by a guardian, and child illness are the predictors of malnutrition in under fives. Therefore increasing household food security and reinforcing nutrition education interventions to parents/caretakers and health workers could contribute to a reduction in the prevalence of child malnutrition in the district. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Mzumbe University |
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| dc.subject |
MALNUTRITION-UNDER-FIVE CHILDREN |
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| dc.subject |
MALNUTRITION-UNDER-FIVE-CHILDREN-KIBAHA-DISTRICT-COUNCIL |
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| dc.title |
MALNUTRITION IN UNDER-FIVE CHILDREN: A CASE OF KIBAHA DISTRICT COUNCIL |
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| dc.type |
Thesis |
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