Factors associated with the health and nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in Afghanistan: family behaviour related to women and past experience of war-related hardships

Table 2 Prevalence of morbidity and nutritional status by gender and age of the child (n = 2373 surviving children)

	Morbidity				Nutritional status
	Diarrhoea in the last 2 weeks		Acute respiratory infection in the last 2 weeks		Emaciation (weight-for-height less than -2z)		Linear growth retardation (height-for-age less than -2z)		Under-weight (weight-for-age less than -2z)
	n	%	n	%	n ¹	%	n ¹	%	n¹	%
Girls
0–11 months	246	31.7	227	47.6	188	18.1	207	40.6	238	39.1
12–23 months	277	43.3	263	36.5	245	10.6	246	37.4	271	13.7
24–35 months	226	31.4	211	44.1	210	11.9	212	43.4	226	28.3
36–47 months	220	27.7	185	43.2	205	8.3	206	41.3	220	21.8
48–59 months	172	18.6	152	37.5	148	11.5	149	28.2	157	17.8
All	1141	31.7	1038	41.8	996	11.9	1020	38.7	1112	24.3
Boys
0–11 months	281	36.7	262	43.5	221	23.5	219	37.4	265	37.0
12–23 months	297	38.7	281	43.1	270	13.7	267	41.6	291	20.3
24–35 months	240	37.1	219	32.9	213	10.3	212	43.4	234	23.9
36–47 months	199	28.1	182	40.7	178	6.2	179	40.8	195	21.0
48–59 months	203	21.2	174	39.7	156	7.7	162	42.0	176	15.3
All	1220	33.3	1118	40.3	1038	12.9	1039	41.0	1161	24.2
All	2361	32.5	2156	41.0	2034	12.4	2059	39.9	2273	24.2

¹Children with missing values for anthropometric variables or outlying values for nutritional indices are excluded.

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