Malnutrition and Childhood Illness among 1–5-year-old Children in an Urban Slum in Faridabad: A Cross-Sectional Study
| Autor: | Singh Abhishek, Dixit Shivam, Goyal Pooja, Lukhmana Shveta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Urban Population 030309 nutrition & dietetics Epidemiology Cross-sectional study Respiratory Tract Diseases India malnutrition Child Nutrition Disorders respiratory illness children aged <5 years 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Poverty Areas Surveys and Questionnaires Weight for Age Environmental health Prevalence Community-based Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Wasting Health statistics Integrated Management of Childhood Illness 0303 health sciences Respiratory illness business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Infant lcsh:RA1-1270 urban slum medicine.disease Malnutrition Cross-Sectional Studies Socioeconomic Factors Child Preschool Female Urban slum Morbidity medicine.symptom business Research Paper |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2019) Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health |
| ISSN: | 2210-6006 |
| DOI: | 10.2991/jegh.k.190212.001 |
| Popis: | A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted among 202 children aged 1–5 years residing in an urban slum to study the extent of malnutrition and its association with common childhood illness(es). The participants were selected using convenient sampling (nonprobability), and the appropriate respondents were interviewed using a structured, semi-open-ended, pretested, interviewer-administered questionnaire. The prevalence of undernutrition (weight for age), stunting (height for age), and wasting (weight for height) were calculated at the cutoff level of ≤2 standard deviation (Z-score |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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