Conclusion

Undernutrition among under five years is still a major public health issue in Cameroon regardless the efforts registered during the past decades. It is the result of a combination of well known socioeconomic and biological factors, in association with psychological factors that are under estimated and contextual factors.


Rural areas are more at risk than urban zones and poverty is a grounded matrix with complex infractions between a wide range of factors including; child’s characteristics, mother’s features, household and family attributes and psychological determinants.

Thus the national program implementation is likely to be succesfull if this considerations are well integrated at the central level, at the operational level with a strong commitment of all the stakeholders; it is suitable to incorporate psychological approach combine with socio economical activities to improve efficiency of strategies against undernutrition

Operational research  should be part of the interventions in order to timely trace significant changes for capitalisation of good practices and improvment of less satisfactory ones.

Further studies should carry out to better highlight the psychological determinants as well as others new vision about under five year undernutrition; aiming to buld a comprehensive Infant and child survival interventions.