Abstract
This study deals with the assessment of nutritional status of rural and urban primary school going children in coastal belt of Bangladesh. Anthropometric data were collected from anthropological survey among 200 participants of twenty primary schools. Ten of these were from urban area and ten were from rural area and equal percentages of participants were taken from boys and girls who were selected randomly. The study found that rural school going children suffering more from under nutrition (Stunting, wasted, and underweight) problem where overweight and obesity is the major problem for urban children. It is also found that the health status of boys is slightly better than girls from rural area. Such as in rural area percentages of underweight girls are more than boy. But in case of urban area of Barisal the nutritional condition of girls is better than the boys. The study found remarkable deference of nutritional between rural and urban girls. Thinness and underweight is the major problem for rural girls but it is less in urban girls.
Highlights
Anthropometry has become a practical tool for evaluating the nutritional status of populations, of children in developing countries “[5]” and nutritional status is the best indicator of the global well- being of children “[5]”
The costal rural people are deprived from development the city people are blessed with development
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) data, around 1 billion people are overweight in the world today [22]
Summary
Anthropometry has become a practical tool for evaluating the nutritional status of populations, of children in developing countries “[5]” and nutritional status is the best indicator of the global well- being of children “[5]”. One of the major global health problem faced by the developing countries, today is malnutrition “[17], [19]”. Bangladesh is a south Asian developing country. The economic improvements in South Asian countries over the past decade have not been adequately reflected in improvements in child nutrition “[1,2], [4]”. Malnutrition makes the child more vulnerable to morbidity and mortality “[3], [9]” but has been linked to poorer educational attainment, delayed mental development “[11]” and lower intellectual and physical abilities in adult life “[14]”. Poor fetal growth and/or undernourishment in the early child years lead to irreversible damage causing shorter adult height as well as lower weight “[16]”.
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