Undernutrition in Refugee Children

Obesity and undernutrition in sub-Saharan African immigrant and refugee children in Victoria, Australia.

The study assessed the anthropometric status of 337 sub-Saharan African children aged between 3-12 years who migrated to Australia. These children were selected using a snowball sampling method stratified by age, gender and region of origin. The prevalence rates for overweight and obesity were 18.4% (95%CI: 14 - 23%) and 8.6% (95%CI: 6% -12%) respectively. The prevalence rates for the indicator...

Refugee Children in England

Problems arising from the evacuation of children have lately been discussed at length. This paper deals with a similar subject, an evacuation problem on the largest scale. Evacuation of schoolchildren means more than the separation of children from their parents and home environment for an indefinite time; it means also the abandonment of many factors which have been regarded as essential for t...

Undernutrition and severe acute malnutrition in children

Undernutrition in ART-naïve Nigerian children

License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. Permissions beyond the scope of the License are administered by Dove Medical Press Limited. Information on how to request permission may be f...

Classification of protein-calorie undernutrition in children.

Since the first description of kwashiorkor by Williams (1935), this condition has been found to be prevalent in many economically backward countries. Nevertheless, the minimum criteria for the diagnosis of kwashiorkor have never been agreed. Brock and Autret (1952) accepted a diagnosis of kwashiorkor if there was retarded growth, alterations in skin and hair pigmentation, oedema, fatty infiltra...