Maternal food intake and socioeconomic status to tackle childhood malnutrition

Teixeira, Vítor Hugo; Moreira, Pedro

doi:10.1016/j.jped.2016.08.002

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“…Socioeconomic status and the education of mother plays important role in providing better health care and nutrition to children under 5, this is not only confined to age under 5 because over nutrition is also becoming prevent in the adults due to provision of junk food at developmental age that ultimately is leading to obesity particular in adult age group [15,16]. Socioeconomic status of family determines the health status of its members, to the best of our knowledge the major population of Pakistan belongs to middle class (mediocre socioeconomic status) identification of malnutrition in our setups may help the policy makers to develop certain parameters to provide better nutrition to children under 5 years of age.…”

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Impact of Socioeconomic Inequalities on Child Malnutrition

Qambrani¹,

Jamali²,

Siyal³

et al. 2020

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Socioeconomic status and the education of mother plays important role in providing better health care and nutrition to children. To the best of our knowledge the major population of Pakistan belongs to middle class and identification of malnutrition in our setups may help the policy makers to develop certain parameters to provide better nutrition to children under 5 years of age. The aims of current study were to analyze the prevalence of malnutrition and their association with different socioeconomic status in tertiary care hospital of Hyderabad. Study Design: Cross sectional. Place and Duration of Study: Study was performed at nutritional stabilization center of pediatric department of tertiary care hospital Hyderabad during the month of July 2019 to January 2020. Methodology: Preformed proforma was designed to record the data of participants. Hospital protocols using WHO guidelines (17) i.e. 10 steps for in-patient care of severe malnutrition were started & followed with feeding F-75 & F-100. Data was analyzed on SPSS-20. Results: The minimum age recorded was 8 months and maximum was found to be 45 months (3 years 9 months). 72% were females and 70% of participants had Weight to height ratio below normal. Prevalence of severe acute malnutrition was found to be 35.2%. After admission and management protocols 91.6% were recovered however, mortality was observed in 8.9% participants. Chi square analysis of all socioeconomic groups showed highly significant results with severe acute malnutrition (p-value= 0.001). Conclusion: Current study concluded a high prevalence of SAM in Pakistani population that is about 35.2%, out of which majority was from lower socioeconomic class.

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confidence: 99%