[The Zimbabwe National Nutrition Survey, 2010 revealed a worsening problem of chronic malnutrition, posing
long-term survival and development challenges for Zimbabwe, plummeting exclusive breastfeeding rates, with age of greatest malnutrition and
infection is from pre-natal period to 24 months ] source T L Mutsekekwa ……[ for more visit this website
http://www.unicef.org/zimbabwe/media_5965.html
Child nutrition
Adequate nutrition, beginning in early stages of life, is
crucial to ensure good physical and mental development and long-term health.
The 30 million low-birth-weight babies born annually (23.8%
of all births) often face severe short- and long-term health consequences. Low
birth weight is a major determinant of mortality, morbidity and disability in
infancy and childhood and also has a long-term impact on health outcomes in
adult life. The consequences of poor nutritional status and inadequate
nutritional intake for women during pregnancy not only directly affects women’s
health status, but may also have a negative impact on birth weight and early
development.
Low birth weight also results in substantial costs to the
health sector and imposes a significant burden on society as a whole. Whereas
the global prevalence of such births is slowly dropping, it is as high as 30%
in many developing countries. [ extract from WHO/NHD http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/feto_maternal/en/
]
Quick statistics
40% of the global number of children under five who are
stunted
50% reduction of anaemia in women of reproductive age
30% reduction of low birth weight
no increase in childhood overweight
increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first
six months up to at least 50%
reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than 5%
some documents you can download include:
1.
WHO NMH Document on nutrition
2.
Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal,
infant and young child nutrition
3.
Development of a strategy towards promoting
optimal fetal growth
4.
Maternal and children nutrition
5.
Zimbabwe child malnutrition data
infant and new born nutrition from medline plus
infant and new born nutrition from medlineplus
Documents on Zimbabwe and child nutrition
According to the Zimbabwe Demographic Household Survey of
2010-11 56% of children between the ages of 6 to 59 months are anemic. The
National Nutrition Survey which was done in 2010 shows that less than 10% of
Zimbabwean children under the age of 2 receive the recommended minimum
acceptable diet of eggs, meat, milk products, and legumes are rarely included
in the diets of young children.
The World Food Programme recently announced that 2.2 million
people are food insecure and are in need of food assistance. Due to high food
prices many families can longer afford to have three meals per day, not to
mention a balanced diet. Production of small grains and other local varieties,
which are huge sources of nutrients, has significantly dropped as farmers now
pursue high value crops like tobacco.
[ extracted from
article by Kubatana http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/world-food-day-promoting-sustainable-food-systems-for-food-security-and-nutrition-in-zimbabwe-19947/
2.
National nutrition survey By Tapuwa L. Mutseyekwa
The Zimbabwe National Nutrition Survey, which was conducted
in January 2010 revealed a worsening problem of chronic malnutrition, posing
long-term survival and development challenges for Zimbabwe. The survey also
shows plummeting exclusive breastfeeding rates. ……In his response to the survey
results, UNICEF Representative, Dr. Peter Salama said the survey had further
demonstrated that the age of greatest vulnerability to malnutrition and
infection is from pre-natal period to 24 months and identifies this period as
“the critical window of opportunity’.
While the overall prevalence of severe acute malnutrition
remains relatively low across the country for children under five years, at
2.1%, the rates double among younger children between 6-18 months old,
suggesting inherent problems in infant feeding practices, including access to
right foods. These rates of severe acute malnutrition translate to over 15,000
severely malnourished children that are at a very high risk of dying in
Zimbabwe.
Furthermore only about 8% of children below the age of two
years old receive the minimum acceptable complementary foods in terms of
quality and diversity. In addition, over
a third of the children reside in households not accessing safe water and
sanitation facilities. These factors
appear to be directly linked to undernutrition. ……[ for more visit this website
http://www.unicef.org/zimbabwe/media_5965.html
Africa trends
1.
Child Health - WHO | Regional Office for Africa
Of the 46 countries in the African Region, 36 have
under-five mortality rates ... Undernutrition is directly or indirectly
responsible for 3.5 million child death every ...
2.
[PDF]Child
Malnutrition Child Malnutrition - Unicef
http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/about/sgreport-pdf/02_ChildMalnutrition_D7341Insert_English.pdf
The high levels of undernutrition in children and women in
South Asia and sub-Saharan. Africa pose a major challenge for child survival
and development.
3.
Child Malnutrition - UNICEF STATISTICS
data.unicef.org/nutrition/malnutrition
Undernutrition contributes to half of all deaths in children
under 5 and is widespread in Asia and Africa ... Undernutrition puts children
at greater risk of dying from common infections, increases the frequency and
severity of such infections, and ...
4.
[PDF]childhood
malnutrition in sub-saharan africa and ...
by B Ejide - Related articles Childhood malnutrition, one
among the myriad of sustainable development ... in sub-Saharan Africa dominates
African narrative to the neglect of malnutrition, ...
5.
Inequities in under-five child malnutrition in
South Africa
E Zere, D McIntyre - International Journal for Equity in
Health, 2003 - biomedcentral.com
Objectives To assess and quantify the magnitude of inequalities
in under-five child
malnutrition, particularly those ascribable to
socio-economic status and to consider the
policy implications of these findings. Methods Data on 3765
under-five children were ...
6.
Urban–rural differentials in child malnutrition:
trends and socioeconomic correlates in sub-Saharan Africa
JC Fotso - Health & Place, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper examines levels and trends of urban–rural
differentials in child malnutrition, and
investigates whether residual differences exist between
urban and rural areas, given
comparable measures of socioeconomic status (SES) of
households and communities. ...
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some of the books in the collection on nutrition
1.
nutrition : a health promotion approach / g Webb
2.
human nutrition Geissler and Powers
3.
a practical guide to child nutrition by Dare and
O’ Donovan
4.
The nutritional psychology of childhood by Drewett
5.
Pediatric nutrition handbook by American Academy
of Pediatrics
6.
Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for
physicians and other senior health workers by World health Organisation
7.
The state of the World’s children: maternal and
new born health by UNICEF
8.
Abc of nutrition by a s Truswell
9.
An evaluation of infant growth: WHO working
group on infant growth by WHO
10.
Multiple indicator monitoring survey (MIMS) by
ZIMSTAT
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