Factors Influencing Recovery among Children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition Treated at Kirehe District Health Centers

Possible Risk Factors Related to Malnutrition in 6-59-Month Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in District Pakpattan, Punjab

Background: Malnutrition is responsible for one third of the mortality rate among children less than 5 years old. Worldwide, 54% of the child deaths are due to malnutrition and the caseload in Pakistan is equal to 46%. In the current study, we attempted to identify the possible risk factors related to malnutrition among6-59-month children in Pakpattan, Punjab province. Methods: A total of 500 s...

Treatment outcome and factors affecting time to recovery in children with severe acute malnutrition treated at outpatient therapeutic care program

BACKGROUND The outpatient therapeutic care program (OTP) of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been decentralized to health post level in Ethiopia since 2008-2009. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding treatment outcomes and factors related to the duration of stay on treatment after its decentralization to health post level. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to assess tre...

Integrated program achieves good survival but moderate recovery rates among children with severe acute malnutrition in India.

BACKGROUND At any point in time, an average 8 million Indian children suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). OBJECTIVE This article assesses the effectiveness of an integrated model for the management of SAM (IM-SAM) in India comprising facility- and community-based care and using locally adapted protocols. DESIGN Children (n = 2740) were randomly sampled from the 44,017 children aged...

prevalence of malnutrition among under-five year old children with acute lower respiratory tract infection hospitalized at udupi district hospital

background: increased incidence and severity of acute lower respiratory tract infection (alri) are variably associated with malnutrition. objectives: we aimed to examine the prevalence of malnutrition in under-five year old hospitalized children with alri. patients and methods: children aged from 6 to 60 months, mostly from a low socioeconomic population, admitted with alri, were enrolled prosp...

Hospitalized Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in Rewa District