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Factors Associated with Stunting Among Children Under Five Years in Myanmar (Nandar Aung, 2022) Nandar Aung study aims at contribution for the understanding of demographic, socioeconomic and health factors of under-five children in Myanmar. The reduction of under-five children indirectly helps to improve child survival and lower the exposure of young children to risk of stunting. A weighted sample of 4069 children aged 0-59 months form the nationally representative data from the Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS 2015-16) are utilized in this study. Nutritional status of under five years’ children was expressed as indicator of Height-for-age (stunted) according to the criteria of WHO (2009). Descriptive statistics is applied to identify the important factors of child stunting. Furthermore, Binary logistic regression model is used to test the influence of demographic, socio-economic and other factors on the nutritional status of under five children. Among under five children, one-third are stunting. Most of the stunting children was found in aged between 1-3 years. The bivariate analysis shows that stunting is related to maternal age at child birth, place of residence, mother’s education, mother’s employment status, wealth quintile, child’s age, birth order, size of child at birth, ANC visits, BMI, maternal height, received vitamin A1, breastfeeding within first hour. According to the results of binary logistic regression model, wealth quintile, child’s age, birth order, small size of child at birth, BMI, mother’s height, mother received vitamin A1 have positive effects and are more likely to be stunting of under-five children. 2022-04-01 https://meral.edu.mm/records/8199