Ayele Dawit Getnet, Abdallah Ahmed Saied Rahama, Mohammed Mohammed Omar Musa
Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, USA.
College of Business Administration in Hotat bani Tamim, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Saudi Arabia.
Iran J Public Health. 2021 Jan;50(1):1-10. doi: 10.18502/ijph.v50i1.5067.
One of the health challenges in Sub-Saharan countries is child malnutrition. Body Mass Index (BMI) can be defined as a measure of nutritional status. Examining the determinants of under-five children's BMI is a significant subject that needs to be studied. For this study, quantile regression was used to identify the determinants of under-five children's BMI in Sudan.
We used the 2014 Sudan Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Quantile regression was used.
Place of residence, state, mother's educational level, gender, age of the child, and wealth index were an important effect significantly affecting under-five children's BMI at different quantile levels.
Taking measures on the nutritional status of mothers will accordingly resolve the nutritional status of their children. Therefore, the focus of policymakers should be on the influential significant factors which were found across all quantile levels to plan and develop strategies to enhance the normal or healthy weight status of under-five children in Sudan.
撒哈拉以南国家面临的健康挑战之一是儿童营养不良。体重指数（BMI）可被定义为一种营养状况衡量指标。研究五岁以下儿童BMI的决定因素是一个需要研究的重要课题。在本研究中，采用分位数回归来确定苏丹五岁以下儿童BMI的决定因素。
我们使用了苏丹中央统计局2014年进行的多指标类集调查（MICS）。采用了分位数回归。
居住地、州、母亲的教育水平、性别、孩子的年龄以及财富指数在不同分位数水平上对五岁以下儿童的BMI有显著重要影响。
采取改善母亲营养状况的措施将相应地解决其子女的营养状况问题。因此，政策制定者应关注在所有分位数水平上均被发现的有显著影响的因素，以规划和制定战略，提高苏丹五岁以下儿童的正常或健康体重状况。
