Environmental, Socio-Demographic and Behavioral Factors of Stunting in Children Under 2 Years of Age in Rural Gujarat – An Ethnographic Study
Improper feeding and poor hygiene and sanitation practices have a potential to jeopardize the nutritional status of young children and can be the mainspring for children to suffer from malnutrition and its lifelong consequences.
Authors
- Deepak Saxena (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0563-4259)
- Robert Dreibelbis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9716-0419)
- Khushi Kansara
- Tapasvi Puwar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4994-0306)
- Hugh Sharma Waddington (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3859-3342)
- Komal Shah
- Priyanka Shah
Institutions
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Indian Journal of Community Medicine
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_483_24
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00