Determinants of undernutrition among private and public primary school children: A comparative cross-sectional study toward nutritional transition in northwest Ethiopia

Abstract

which includes an inadequate quantity of the diet and qualitatively insufficient consumption of diet [2]. Undernutrition includes wasting, stunting, and being underweight. Based on the 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) reports, around 47 million children <5 y of age were wasted, around 14.3 million were severely wasted, and about 144 million