1. Malnutrition and Childhood Illness among 1–5-year-old Children in an Urban Slum in Faridabad: A Cross-Sectional Study
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Singh Abhishek, Dixit Shivam, Goyal Pooja, and Lukhmana Shveta
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Male ,Urban Population ,030309 nutrition & dietetics ,Epidemiology ,Cross-sectional study ,Respiratory Tract Diseases ,India ,malnutrition ,Child Nutrition Disorders ,respiratory illness ,children aged <5 years ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Poverty Areas ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Weight for Age ,Environmental health ,Prevalence ,Community-based ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Wasting ,Health statistics ,Integrated Management of Childhood Illness ,0303 health sciences ,Respiratory illness ,business.industry ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,Infant ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,urban slum ,medicine.disease ,Malnutrition ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Child, Preschool ,Female ,Urban slum ,Morbidity ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Research Paper - Abstract
A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted among 202 children aged 1–5 years residing in an urban slum to study the extent of malnutrition and its association with common childhood illness(es). The participants were selected using convenient sampling (nonprobability), and the appropriate respondents were interviewed using a structured, semi-open-ended, pretested, interviewer-administered questionnaire. The prevalence of undernutrition (weight for age), stunting (height for age), and wasting (weight for height) were calculated at the cutoff level of ≤2 standard deviation (Z-score
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- 2019