In an attempt to throw more light on the situation regarding African schoolchildren, studies have been made on series of pupils, aged 10-12 years, at three rural schools in North West Province, South Africa. Of 396 pupils, 126 (31.8%) were below, and 270 (68.2%) above the 5th centile...
In an attempt to throw more light on the situation regarding African schoolchildren, studies have been made on series of pupils, aged 10-12 years, at three rural schools in North West Province, South Africa. Of 396 pupils, 126 (31.8%) were below, and 270 (68.2%) above the 5th centile...
Design: Cross-sectional study.Setting: Children from immunisation and paediatric outpatient clinics of Jos University Teaching Hospital and two schools in Jos,Plateau state, Nigeria. Subjects: Children 6–59 months with parental consent... C John,I Ocheke,U Diala,... - 《South African Journal ...
It was largely because most schools in the parish did not have kitchens that the programme opted for conveniently packed buns or patties (Gleaner, 17 December 1971, 6 October 1975, 17 March 1978). Outside Kingston and St. Andrew, schools under the Food-for-Peace programme were given oil ...
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 c
The plant based pattern observed in our study may also be a reflection of aspects of the school meal programme in Kenya, which typically includes cereals (maize/rice) and pulses/legumes [49], as most adolescents in Kenya spend a majority of their time in schools. In urban slums, the low...
between educational achievements and the 'health status' of the rural South African children in the Ellisras Longitudinal Study (ELS).The study followed a cohort design where 1033 children (569 boys and 464 girls) aged 7鈥 14 were randomly sampled from 11 primary schools and one secondary ...
This understanding will enable strategies and policies aimed at providing efficient and effective service referral and service delivery to improve childhood malnutrition in South Africa.Sello M.Demography and Population Studies Programme Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences University of the ...
Doctoral thesis summarized in this paper. We also acknowledge the Department of Education in Limpopo Province, South Africa, and the primary schools and governing bodies for permission to conduct the study. Finally, we are grateful to mothers who participated with their children in the study, and...
(2) Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 423 adolescents across 10 high schools in Harare. A questionnaire was used to collect data and weight for height-z-scores were used to compute body mass index. Pearson’s Chi-Square and multinomial logistic regression were used to ...