Nutritional situation in under – 5 in “montes de maria”, post-conflict zone in colombia- 2017

Objectives To estimate the nutritional status in children under 5 in “Montes de María”, a post-conflict zone in Colombia- 2017. Methods Cross sectional observational study that use data from a survey of 15,230 households with subsidized health care insurance. From these, 2,682 children between 0-4 years with anthropometric information from 2,183 households were included. Based on the World Health Organization standards, weight and height information were used to calculate the Z-score indicator = weight-for-height (W/H), height-for-age (H/A) and weight-for-age (W/A). Z-score categories were defined as: well fed (±2), malnourished (<-2), severely malnourished (<-3). Prevalence of nutritional states were estimated and association among children characteristics, households and nutritional status were validated through Chi-X2 test. Results Prevalence of low weight, acute and chronic malnutrition was 2.4%, 5.5% and 8.6% respectively. Group of 0-1 years was the most prevalent in acute (6.7%) and chronic (9.6%) malnutrition. There were significant differences in prevalence between children ages (Pr<0.001) in all of three indicators, except in the prevalence of low weight for sex (Pr<0.05). Age of the head of household (Pr=0.027), education of the head of household (Pr=0.001), education of mother (Pr=0.001), number of people in household (Pr=0.001) were significantly associated with growth retardation of children. Conclusions In this study, acute malnutrition is higher than national level (0.9%), being children of <1 year those who presented higher malnutrition compared with the national level. Health policies related with early childhood in vulnerable population must be improved in order to reduce these figures.

• Autores: Salcedo Mejia, F; Alvis Zakzuk, NR; Orozco Africano, J; Ortiz Ibañez, L; Jervis Jalabe, D; Jerez Arias, M; Crissien Borrero, T; Alvis Guzman, N
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/4711
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/4711; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Estado nutricional en niños menores de 5 años; Montes de María; Zona de posconflicto en Colombia- 2017; Nutritional status in children under 5 years; Post-conflict zone in Colombia- 2017
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/