STRATEGY FOR ANALYZING REGIONAL AND GLOBAL TRENDS IN CHILD MALNUTRITION

Background Malnutrition among children is a significant factor that helps in generating proper monitoring technique that helps in generating progress towards the development goals that are selected during the Paris Summit for gaining a sustainable world. The development of the World Health Organisation-based methodology is derived from the regional and global trends of stunting and underweight-related problems occurring in children. The reports regarding trend analysis of the aforementioned problems for the years 2008 to 2023 are used. Methods Prevalence Data based on the reports generated by the branches of WHO located across 186 countries are extracted. Depending on Global Database that is generated based on Child Growth trends and Malnutrition rates are used. Estimation of the problem trends is created using mixed-effect methods. Random impacts that are generated across the country level and the heterogeneity that is found within the covariance structures are used. Each region of United Nations-based countries is allocated for conducting the legit transformation of the malnutrition rate over the last fifteen years. Results During the last fifteen years, a significant level of change has been found regarding the two problems of stunting and underweight. Stunting shows a decrement starting from 33.7% to 25.1% globally, with the highest decrement rate in the Northern African region, starting from 26.2% to 13.1%. Similarly, the decrement rate of underweight children existence is found to be 26.7% to 20.5%, with the highest decrement rate found in Asian countries from 35.5% to 24.7%. Conclusion The global trends of malnutrition among children under the age of 5 are uneven in different regions of the world. More concerted interventions of the national and international authorities are required to meet the Sustainable Developmental Goals that have helped reduce the rate of child malnutrition over the last 15 years.