Abstract
We conduct this study to study risk factors of protein energy malnutrition Among Children Under Five years .This study was conducted in Nyala Locality in south Darfur State in Sudan. Cross-sectional descriptive study to measure the Prevalence of protein energy malnutrition. This study designed to cover (n=402 child).
Highlights
Malnutrition is a broad range of clinical conditions in children and adults that results from deficiencies in one or a number of nutrients (1)
According to UNICEF 2007, malnutrition contributes to the deaths of more than 6 million children under age five each year (2)
Malnutrition causes about 5.6 million of 10 million child deaths per year, with severe malnutrition contributing to about 1.5 million of these deaths and the prevalence of malnutrition is highest in Sub-Saharan African (4).Acute malnutrition is the leading cause of ill-health of children in Darfur(5)
Summary
Malnutrition is a broad range of clinical conditions in children and adults that results from deficiencies in one or a number of nutrients (1). Childhood under nutrition is an underlying cause of 35 percent of deaths among children under five years old in the developing world. An estimated 19 million children under five suffer from SAM, with half a million dying directly because of SAM each year These numbers do not include children suffering from bilateral pitting oedema, which is the most lethal form of acute malnutrition (7). In order to properly set priorities and make progress in treatment and prevention campaigns, the general (and regionally specific) risk factors of PEM must be thoroughly understood (11) These include family food shortages, inadequate care and feeding practices, especially of children and women, poor living conditions and poor health services. Inadequate environmental sanitation services increase the risk of food-borne infections (14)
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