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Effect of mother’s education on child’s nutritional status in the slums of Nairobi

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pediatrics, June 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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Title
Effect of mother’s education on child’s nutritional status in the slums of Nairobi
Published in
BMC Pediatrics, June 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2431-12-80
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Authors

Benta A Abuya, James Ciera, Elizabeth Kimani-Murage

Abstract

Malnutrition continues to be a critical public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. For example, in East Africa, 48 % of children under-five are stunted while 36 % are underweight. Poor health and poor nutrition are now more a characteristic of children living in the urban areas than of children in the rural areas. This is because the protective mechanism offered by the urban advantage in the past; that is, the health benefits that historically accrued to residents of cities as compared to residents in rural settings is being eroded due to increasing proportion of urban residents living in slum settings. This study sought to determine effect of mother's education on child nutritional status of children living in slum settings.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 1052 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 218 21%
Student > Bachelor 131 12%
Researcher 82 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 70 7%
Lecturer 68 6%
Other 160 15%
Unknown 334 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 203 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 184 17%
Social Sciences 90 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 55 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 38 4%
Other 124 12%
Unknown 369 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 September 2018.
All research outputs
#1,397,871
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pediatrics
#138
of 3,143 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,106
of 165,751 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pediatrics
#7
of 48 outputs
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