Objective: To improve the clinical management of severely malnourished children in rural hospitals in South Africa. Study design: A preand post-intervention descriptive study in three stages: assessment of the clinical management of severely malnourished children, planning and implementing an action plan to improve quality of care, and monitoring and evaluating targeted activities. A participat...

Brooke, 0. G. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 525. Hypothermia in malnourished Jamaican children. An analysis was made of the 4-hourly temperature records of 137 malnourished Jamaican children, the consecutive admissions to a metabolic ward during a 3-year period. Mean rectal temperature of afebrile children during the first week in hospital was 0 52 °C lower than it was in the we...

Prevalence of malnutrition is a global phenomenon but the greatest contribution towards it is from the developing countries. Malnutrition impairs physical growth, cognitive functions of brain, physiological functions, immune response changes. Twenty Seven percent of children under 5 years are malnourished in the developing countries. India contributes to approximately 5.6 million child deaths a...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a major cause of child morbidity and mortality. There are several interventions to prevent the condition but it is unclear how well they are taken up by both malnourished and well nourished children and their mothers and the extent to which this is influenced by socio-economic factors. We examined socio-economic factors, health outcomes and the uptake of interventions...

Erythrocyte fatty acids and plasma vitamin E concentrations were determined in 47 grade 2 and 21 grade 3 malnourished Pakistani children (ages 4-56 months). Data were compared with those of 26 age- and sex-matched apparently healthy controls. Evaluation with three statistical approaches revealed that both grade 2 and grade 3 malnourished children had decreased erythrocyte omega6 fatty acids and...