Socioeconomic inequalities affecting child malnutrition in rural areas of district Faisalabad, Pakistan

Abstract

The composite discourse was designed to investigate the socioeconomic inequalities affecting child malnutrition in rural areas of District Faisalabad. The area of investigation was Faisalabad, incorporating Tehsil Faisalabad and Tehsil Tandlianwala. The objectives were confined to find the destinations of socioeconomic inequalities in youth malnutrition in the creating scene, to give confirmation to a relationship between financial imbalance and the normal level of malnutrition, to draw consideration to various examples of socioeconomic inequalities affecting child malnutrition. The conceptual framework constitutes the dependent variable Child Malnutrition and the independent variable Mother Education plays major role. The sample size of 200 mothers having child of the age between 5 to 11 years old were selected. Chi square test was used for determining the association between dependent and independent variables. The chi- square value (52.584) shows a significant (P=.003) association between schooling years of mother and weight percentile of child. The major findings were that 16% of children were <3^rd, 11.5% of children were between 3^rd to 5^th, 16.5% of children were between 10^th to 25^th, 19.5% of children were between 50^th to 75^th, 4.5% of children were between 75^th to 90^th, 6% of children were between 90^th to 95^th and 6% of children were >97^th weight for age percentile.