Nutritional Deficiency Disorders Among Tribal School Children

Introduction Malnutrition is responsible for high morbidity and mortality in Ind school children who constitute particular victims. Children constitute nation’s human resource. Early detection and prompt management are essential to reduce their mortality percentage. Today measures for better nutrition in tribal communities Minister’s 20 point programme (1). It is well recognized that main ca malnutrition among these people and in many developing countries are poor economic condition, low education standard and inadequate availability of food. The dietry and nutritional surveys so far carried out in India have been largely confined to the urban school children and limited studies have so far being carried out in rural areas. Nutritional status of children can be assessed with important tools like clinical examination, anthropometric measurement, biochemical laborat simplest, most practical and essential part of the nutritional surveys. The present study was undertaken with these limitations to assess the rural tribal primary school children on the clinical parame this purpose isolated easily accessible pockets of tribal groups in hilly areas of of Dhule district of Maharashtra were taken as study material. Materials and methods The present study was carried out in tribal primary sc 404 primary schools children of both sexes between 6 examined. The information age in complete years was obtained from school record. The weights were taken by weighing balance up to nearest 0.1 kg. A thorough clinical examination of children was done including anthropometrical measurements and other related factors for the nutritional status of -IJMS)