Nutrition status of children from 7 to 15 years old in the coastals and agricultural areas in Thai Binh province
- Author:
Pham Ngoc Khai
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Nutrition
- MeSH:
Nutritional Status;
child;
Agriculture
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2004;14(4):58-62
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The change of nutritional status of primary and secondary school children (7-15 years old )living in coastal (3 communes) and agricultural (3communes)
areas in Thai Binh province was assessed repeately after 9 years of intervention (1995 and 2004). The rate of underweight, stunting and wasting were 25,4%, 30,1%, and the reductive trend was faster in coastal areas than that in agricultural areas. In the year 2004, a rate of 1,1% of children in general was overweight,i.e. higher with statistical significance than that in y.1995 (0,41% in coastal and 0,57% in agricultural areas)
