Investigating the spatial variations of high prevalences of severe malnutrition among children in Papua New Guinea: results from geoadditive models

摘要

BackgroundPapua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the nutritionally vulnerable countries with a high rate of children death without showing a sign of improvement in last two decades. Current study investigated the prevalences of stunting and wasting among a cohort of children in PNG and described the spatial features of these outcomes at the province and district-levels.