[Economic, social, and health determinants that influence exclusive breastfeeding in Colombia].

Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is an important practice that offers many benefits, such as nutritional support, prevention of infectious and chronic diseases, and assistance in psychosocial and cognitive development. This study aims to identify the determinants associated with EBF abandonment in 1,527 children under six months of age, based on information collected by the Colombian National Survey of Nutritional Status and the Colombian National Demographic and Health Survey, 2010. This is an observational cross-sectional cohort study, in which a hierarchical Poisson regression model with robust variance was applied; considering in the first level the factors associated with the mother and child and, in the second level, the information of 32 departments and Bogotá.

[Time trend of undernutrition mortality in Colombia, 2005-2019Tendência temporal da mortalidade por desnutrição na Colômbia, 2005-2019].

Objective: To describe the time trends of mortality attributable to malnutrition in Colombia in the period 2005-2019, overall and disaggregated by age and sex.

Methods: Ecological study based on secondary data on mortality due to undernutrition as the underlying cause of death according to vital statistics. Crude, age- and sex-specific, and age-standardized annual mortality rates per 100 000 population were calculated.