Nutritional Status of Under Five Year Children and Factors Associated in Kapilvastu District, Nepal.

Socio-cultural practices such as less consideration for supplementary child feedings, late weaning and poverty are major causal factors of malnutrition among under-five year children Child health nutritional indicators are used to assess the quality of available health services as well as the general health condition of the entire population. Similarly, childhood nutritional status also determines the health and disease conditions of children in the future life.