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Malnutrition Causes

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Introduction and Justification Acute malnutrition is a disastrous public health condition of epidemic proportions. Right now 52 million children of age group of less than five years, experience acute malnutrition and 34 million of them bound to have most severe condition – Severe Acute Malnutrition. Death among under five years of age due to malnutrition was around 1 million every year(1). According to the World Health Organization(WHO), starvation and malnutrition were the single hazardous conditions to the world's public health (2). Mortality rate among malnourished children in the countries like Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda, etc., was 5-20 times higher compared to well-nourished children. Severe acute malnutrition can be either the direct cause of child death or indirect cause of mortality/morbidity among children suffering from common childhood illnesses such as LRI and Diarrhea(3).
Decreased food intake, increased energy expenditure and poor health conditions leading to illnesses result in a poor nutritional condition. Malnutrition is the main principle …show more content…

Why this study?
In India, though malnutrition is one of the major public health problems, there is very minimal information on risk factors of Severe Acute Malnutrition. So far, there have been very few studies conducted for determining the risk factors of SAM and those studies are hospital based. Here, in this study a community based case-control study was done to determine the risk-factors of SAM among the children of age group 6-59 months residing in both Kaniyambadi block and Vellore

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