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ABSTRACT:
Malnutrition among children under five years of age is chronic problem in the most regions of India. This study estimatted that prevalence and identified the risk factors of malnutrition among children under five years of age in Dhamtari District, Chhattisgarh. 248 Kamar children aged 12-59 months comprising of 125 girls and 123 boys were selected purposively from two blocks viz Magarlod and Nagri of Dhamtari District, Chhattisgarh region of Central India. The study estimatted prevalence of malnutrition and investigated the effects demographic, socioeconomic and child birth order, birth weight, duration of exclusive breast feeding and variables of malnutrition, stunting, underweight and wasting among under five years of age of Kamar children. Logistic regression was used to identify the determinants of malnutrition in the study area.
KEYWORDS: Malnutrition under five children Dhamtari.
INTRODUCTION:
Nutritional status of children provides an indirect measurement of quality of life of an entire population. Under nutrition is a major threat to the survival, growth and development of Indian children. They are vulnerable to malnutrition due to low dietary intake, lack of child care, intrauterine growth retardation and a high rate of infectious diseases. The prevalence of underweight is extremely high in South Central Asia which accounts for almost half of the global problem.
Children below the age of 5 years constitute 15% of the total population of country and from nutritional point of view they form a vulnerable segment. The factors affecting child malnutrition is very complex and are influenced by multidimensional factors which have not yet been much explored specially among the tribes of Chhattisgarh. Child associated severe malnutrition so that appropriate nutrition. The present study was confined to Kamars which is a particularly vulnerable tribal group of Chhattisgarh. According to census 2011 the total population of Kamar is 26,530 which is almost 0.34% of the scheduled tribe of the state.
Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh state has 342 villages. It comprises of three tahsils and four blocks viz. Dhamtari, Nagri, Kurud and Magarlod. Out of the four blocks only two blocks were selected for the present study. Predominantly Kamar inhabited villages were selected purposively from Nagri and Magarlod block of Dhamtari district. Twenty villages each having more than twenty Kamar families were selected. All the houscholds having 12-59...