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Table 5 Health and nutrition of children aged 0–23 months, by location

From: Nutritional situation among Syrian refugees hosted in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon: cross sectional surveys

 

Jordan 2014

Lebanon 2013

Iraq 2013

Za’atri (Refugee Camp)

National (Outside Camp)

North

South

Beirut

Bekaa

Domiz (Refugee Camp)

Two week prevalence of diarrhea − % (95 % CI)

 Total (0–59 mo)

27.0 (21.1–33.9)a

14.5 (11–18.8)a

33.3 (26.4–41.1)

23.6 (18.3–29.9)

17.2 (12.3–23.5)

26.7 (21.0–33.3)

32.8 (25.6–40.9)

 0–23 mo

39.1 (29.6–49.6)a

21.1 (14.9–28.9)a

38.0 (28.7–48.4)

36.7 (29.8–44.2)

25.0 (17.5–34.3)

39.4 (32.3–46.9)

37.5 (29.4–46.4)

 24–59 mo

20.4 (14.2–28.3)

11.0 (7.9–15.3)

30.1 (23.0–38.3)

15.0 (9.5–22.7)

12.7 (8.0–19.7)

18.7 (12.4–27.3)

29.4 (22.1–37.9)

Current breastfeeding practice − % (95 % CI)

 Total (0–23 mo)

66.7 (57.6–74.7)

68.1 (59.8–75.3)

57.8 (47.7–67.3)

62.0 (49.8–72.8)

65.6 (56.2–74.0)

60.0 (47.2–71.6)

44.5 (40.2–48.9)

 0–5 mo

100

94.4 (77.8–98.8)

88.0 (71.8–95.5)

93.8 (57.3–99.4)

93.1 (73.3–98.5)

84.6 (46.5–97.2)

78.6 (68.7–86.1)

 6–11 mo

97.4 (82.0–99.7)

86.4 (73.1–93.7)

61.3 (40.7–78.5)

70.8 (51.9–84.6)

80.0 (61.7–90.9)

71.4 (48.0–87.1)

58.2 (48.6–67.2)

 12–23 mo

24.5 (14.2–39.0)

44.1 (32.1–56.9)

43.3 (29.9–57.8)

48.1 (30.8–65.8)

45.3 (35.1–56.0)

46.3 (30.9–62.5)

25.1 (20.2–30.7)

  1. aPrevalence of diarrhea in Jordan was not assessed among children 0–5 months of age