出版社：Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Gujarat
摘要：Background: Malnutrition is very rampant in India. About 47 per cent of under-five children are malnourished. Malnutrition is a leading cause of childhood mortality and morbidity as well as permanent impairment of physical and possibly mental growth of survived children. Objective: To find out the prevalence of under-nutrition, to identify various demographic and socio-economic risk factors associated with under-nutrition and to assess various aspects of nutritional and immunization status of children aged between 1 and 5 years of age living in urban slums of Jamnagar city. Design: It is a cross-sectional, population based, descriptive study conducted in urban slums of Jamnagar Municipal corporation area, in August 2008 to October 2010. The study samples were children aged between 1 and 5 years of age. Total sample size was 450. Sampling Technique: 30 cluster sampling technique (15 children per cluster) Results and Conclusion: We observed that prevalence of malnutrition was 54% among under-five children, of which half of the children were in grade-I and grade-II. We also observed that prevalence of malnutrition was higher in female children, mothers with low literacy levels, and belonging to lower socio-economic class. Recommendations: Service delivery component of RCH and other child health programmes needs to be strengthened further, especially in urban slums, to improve nutritional status of under-five children. Raising female literacy will also improve their social status and reduce female child discrimination, and thereby help building malnutrition free India
关键词：under-five; urban slum; ;malnutrition; immunization; social class
