Treatmentfor malnutrition depends on the cause. Food or meal delivery services may be used to ensure access to food, particularly in the case of elderly individuals. Persons who are severely affected may require hospitalization and use of a feeding tube. In many cases, however, simple dietary ad...
3) years following theperiod under survey, underweight cases would bedecreasing while overweight cases would be increasing.This study concludes that data mining and clusteringmethods, with the help of predictive analysis assessment, areappropriate in predicting certain phenomena, such asmalnutrition cases....
On kwashiorkor (Infantile pellagra, malignant malnutrition). This study of the signs and pathology of kwashiorkor, as observed in the Philippines, is based on observation of 15 cases among children aged 10 months to ... E Stransky,DF Dauis-Lawas - 《Ann Paediatr》 被引量: 13发表: 1950年 ...
The financial impact of unrepaired cleft lip and palate in the Philippines There are over 96 million people in the Philippines. Close to 77 thousand persons in this country have orofacial clefting. We estimate nearly 64 thousand a... HR Muntz,JD Meier - 《International Journal of Pediatric Otor...
The main forms of childhood malnutrition occur predominantly in children <5 years of age living in low-income and middle-income countries and include stunting, wasting and kwashiorkor, of which severe wasting and kwashiorkor are commonly referred to a
Malnutrition and Anemia Session 5 Malnutrition and Anemia Malnutrition is the biggest single contributor to child mortality in 1-3 years old group in developing countries including the Philippines. Children are brought to clinic or health center for an acute illness. Usually there is no specific comp...
On the eve of independence in 1962, malnutrition was the largest single cause of death in Jamaica for children under one. Although child malnutrition rates have rapidly declined since 1962, today Jamaica experiences a double burden of malnutrition: the coexistence of pockets of high child malnutritio...
The relative number of cases of SAM by MUAC alone, WHZ alone and those with both criteria have a dominant effect on the proportion of all SAM-related deaths that would occur in children excluded from treatment by a MUAC-only program. Many countries, particularly in the Sahel, West Africa ...
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On the other hand, relying on only one criterion may under-detect cases and deny treatment to a large proportion of the children at high risk of death [11, 12]. WHZ has been repeatedly criticized because it is affected by the body shape of the individual. In particular, ethnic groups, ...