Assessment of Nutritional Deficiency Diseases in Rural School Children’s of Anantapuramu District
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 9
Abstract
In an attempt our study was to enlist the common nutritional deficiencies in rural areas of school children’s of Anantapuramu district, we also aimed to Creating awareness and increasing knowledge of the students, parents and teachers about diet and nutrition providing of patient information leaf let about importance of nutrition. National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) also stated that nutritional disease account about 40 % childhood deaths and as a challenge in the under developing countries like India. Over six months period, assessment of nutritional deficiency diseases was carried out in school children’s studying in Anantapuramu district. Nutritional assessment was done by direct interviewing of school children’s, also by considering from the children’s health book. In this 6 months interventional study There were 1472 participants of those 859 were boy’s participants and 613 were girl’s participants. We are strictly following the inclusion and exclusion criteria and the data was evaluated by the using of Microsoft Excel 2011. All study participants from 6-15 years of age are included in the study. Our study says that most of the nutritional deficiency disorders diseases can be prevented by creating awareness on nutrition and deficiency diseases. Nutritional deficiency disorders can be possible in different ways like inadequate taking of diet by an individual and pregnant woman during the pregnancy which makes the child as high risk to nutritional deficiency disorders.
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S. Pradeep Kumar Reddy, G. V Nagaraju
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