@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0728, 

TITLE={Individual, Family and Contextual Determinants of Malnutrition among Children Under Five in Cameroon}, 
  
AUTHOR={Jean-Robert Rwenge Mburano, Aoudou Njingouo Mounchingam, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Biostatistics and Health Sciences}, 
	
VOLUME={2}, 

NUMBER={Issue 2}, 
	
YEAR={2021}, 

URL={https://openscience.fr/Individual-Family-and-Contextual-Determinants-of-Malnutrition-among-Children}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0728}, 
	
ISSN={2632-8291}, 
	
ABSTRACT={Child malnutrition remains a major public health problem around the world, particularly in Africa. In Cameroon, for example, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), carried out in 2018, shows that three out of ten children under five are victims of malnutrition. The objective of this study is to find the individual, family and community factors associate with this phenomenon. The methodology used to achieve it relies mainly on data from the abovementioned survey and the multivariate multilevel models. The results of the study showed that, all things being equal, the children most affected by malnutrition are those whose two parents are uneducated or poorly educated and whose mothers are not exposed to media and autonomy in decision-making. These children are male, have already celebrated their first birthday, were born with a low weight, were recently anemic or ill and are separated from their previous siblings by less than 24 months. Likewise, the results of the study revealed that these children live in poor households and in ethnically homogeneous communities and these have no or little exposure to media. In view of the inter-community and intra-community variances, individual and family characteristics are the factors which most explain the variation in child malnutrition in the studied milieu. Future interventions in this area should take into account the factors highlighted in this study.}}