Study on the maternal - children nutritional status improve effects of a Integrated Food Security Project
- Author:
Pham Van Hoan
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
maternal - children nutritional status
- MeSH:
Nutritional Status;
Mothers;
Child
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2004;302(9):1-6
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A final impact evaluation of “Quang Binh – GTZ- Intergrated Food Security Project” (1996-2001) on 360 households, 671 children under five and 360 mothers with under five children at 12 project communes belonging to Tuyen Hoa and Minh Hoa district has been conducted. The results showed that: child malnutrition prevalence has been reduced: underweight was signficant lower than that in 1996. Wasting was 5.9% in Tuyen Hoa, 3.7 % in Minh Hoa. Stunting was still very high, 50.% in Tuyen Hoa, 58.3% in Minh Hoa, not different from that in 1996, higher than national data 2001 (35.0%). Lower Birth Weight (LBM) rate was 5.3%. The CED of mothers with under five children in Tuyen Hoa was 16% and in Minh Hoa 21%, significant lower than those in 1996 (37.8% and 27.2%)
