Nutritional status of Kodaku pre-school children in Central India
Dolla, C.K.; Meshram, P.; Shrivastava, P.; Karforma, C.; Das, S.; Uike, M.
Journal of Human Ecology 17(3): 229-231
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0970-9274 DOI: 10.1080/09709274.2005.11905786Document Number: 264254
A community based cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the current nutritional status of pre-school children of Kodaku tribe. A total twenty-five villages were selected by Stratified proportional sampling method. Four hundred eighty-five households and one hundred and eight two pre-school children covered in this study. The Kodaku boys and girls were shorter and lighter than NCHS standard, According to weight for age 59.8% of the children were under-weight (