such interventions require more specific nutrition goals and actions to unleash their full potential in combating child malnutrition ruel et al using a unique dataset from ghana we model the underlying determinants in several input demand functions to understand what drives demand for input in the child health production function we also estimate the conditional demand for nutritional status in a similar framework by estimating the framework as one complete model albeit in two stages we are able to quantify the underlying mechanisms determining inputs and the likely pathways contributing to nutritional status other studies usually depend on national level household data such as demographic and health surveys which limits the possibility of studying such a particular group in detail