Dynamics of child nutrition in rural Bangladesh

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Abstract
Nutritional status determined by weight‐for‐age of about 1000 children under four years of age and its relationship to season and socioeconomic variables were investigated in a rural area of Bangladesh. Data were collected at three six‐month intervals starting in May‐July 1978. Some change in nutritional status and its relationship to socioeconomic variables was noted over the study period and compared to that of the famine period 1974–1975. Seasonal variation of nutritional status was prominent, but the hypothesis that food availability is the sole reason for seasonal variation was brought into question.