A Study on Health Status of Urban School Children (7-18 Years): A School Based Cross Sectional Study
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 8
Abstract
Background: School age is consid-ered as a dynamic period of growth and development because children undergo physical, mental, emotion-al and social changes. The health and nutritional status of school children is an index of national in-vestment in the development of its future manpower. Objective: The objective of the pre-sent study was to assess the health status of school children in Urban Health Training Centre (UHTC) ar-ea of Bareilly, India. Methods: A total of 417 children from various schools aged between 7 to 18 years residing in UHTC area were surveyed in a School Health Program. Height and weight was measured following standard pro-cedures. General nutritional status was assessed clinically. SPSS Ver-sion 16 was used to analyze the da-ta. Results: 417 students were exam-ined. The overall prevalence of un-derweight was 72.7%. 50% study subjects were educated up to Junior High School and Primary School among the boys & girls category re-spectively. Generally boys were tall-er & heavier than girls. The preva-lence of Underweight, Clinical anemia & Dental carries was higher in Girls, while Worm infestation & URTI was higher in Boys. Conclusion: Most of the school chil-dren in our study had a poor nutri-tional status. Interventions such as skills-based nutrition education, for-tification of food items, effective in-fection control, and delivery of inte-grated programs are recommended.
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A P Singh, Abhishek Kumar Singh
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