Title of article :
Prevalence of Malnutrition and Its Related Factors among Pre-School (2-6 Years) Children in the Neighborhood of Chahestaneha, Bandar-Abbas, Iran
Author/Authors :
Ozigi ABDULLAHI, Kabir Department of Medico-Surgical Nursing - School of Nursing & Midwifery - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , Mahmud MUHAMMAD, Fatima Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , HOLAKOUIE-NAIENI, Kourosh Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , KHOSRAVI, Ahmad Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , Saqib LODHI, Fahad Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , Abdullah KAREEM, Ahang Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , Salih Mohammed Amin KAMALI, Aram Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , SABAHAT, Hasnain Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , Najmaddin SAEED, Sami Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , HOSSEINI, Mohammad Ali Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran
Abstract :
Good nutrition is that adequate and well balanced one containing essential nutrient in an appropriate proportion . Malnutrition is an imbalanced nu-tritional status of an individual, insufficient intake of nutrients, absorption and sometimes of patho-logical origin resulting to illnesses of varying de-grees of severity and diverse clinical manifesta-tions, and deaths in extreme cases especially among young children in the developing countries.
Indicators of malnutrition are wasting, under-weight and stunting. Wasting is represented by the weight of an individual for their age as its re-flected in their body size, underweight portrays the height of an individual for their age, it reflects the achieved linear growth while stunting repre-sent the height of children as shorter than ex-pected for their age and gender group with refer-ence to their population due to either past chron-ic nutritional deficiency or pathological state .
Keywords :
Pre-School , Iran , Bandar-Abbas , Malnutrition , Chahestaneha
