Roja, VR and Malarout, Namesh and Pateria, Shilpa and Kamath, Rajesh (2018) Health Status of Under Five Children Living in Urban Slums. Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 9 (10). pp. 195-201. ISSN 0976-0245
![]() |
PDF
5480 DisplayPdf.pdf - Published Version Restricted to Registered users only Download (10MB) | Request a copy |
Abstract
The primary objective of the research was to study the health status of children under the age of 5 years living in urban slums. This study included 224 under-five Children living in urban slums of Udupi Taluk,Karnataka. A total of 17 urban slums were selected randomly. Cluster random sampling was used. A total of 224 under-five children participated in the study. The mean age of the children was 28±1.6 months. The majority were boys (58.5%). Among the 224 children assessed in this study only 8.5% could be classified as healthy,40.6% as moderately healthy and 54.5% as unhealthy. In this study, we found that the overall health status of children aged between 1 month to 60 months based on morbidity, immunization status and nutrition status was unhealthy.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Health status; Under 5 children; Urban slums |
Subjects: | Departments at MU > Public Health |
Depositing User: | KMC Library |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2019 05:51 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jan 2019 05:51 |
URI: | http://eprints.manipal.edu/id/eprint/152612 |
Actions (login required)
![]() |
View Item |