Authors
Rakesh Paliwal
Abstract
The Nutritional status directly refers and influences the children who are in the growing stage by means of mental development. In the slums of urban areas, the children who are underprivileged lag behind the basic necessities, amount of food and the nutrition that is likely to further the ill development. This basic study was performed to investigate the consumption of dietary food among the slums in urban areas dwelling children and the association are also studied with the other social various factors. The diets of urban slum areas were insufficient for micronutrients and macronutrients, which is considered as a danger for the implications of nutrition and health. The need to produce the supply of healthy food and habits is focused. The researchers studied the anthropometric status and the growth of adolescents who lives in the challenging conditions. Various researchers have used the method of comparison in which they have compared the adolescent growth using WHO with the Indian reference population. Keywords: dietary practices, urban slum dwelling children, adolescent growth
Introduction
The elimination of hunger and the nutritional deficiency is considered as one of the major challenge that the humanity in today’s scenario is facing. With the increase in migration of humans in large scale from their native area to cities for getting a better livelihood, as the expansion is also occurring in cities and towns but maximum volume of individuals compromising the ability of the city to see their basic requirements. Then at last the major part of this population that migrates to cities ends up living in slum areas which are having inhuman conditions. According to the surveys, by 2020 half of the population resides in urban areas and about one third portion of this urban population will be of slum occupants. Special kind of health problems are posed by an urban slum because of the unhygienic premises, absence of organized infrastructure of health and poverty overpopulation. The developing countries are surrounded by Urbanization that results in changing ratios from urban to rural population. At the first time in 1988, the urban poor people percentage surpasses the rural poor people percentage. The urban poor population is at the transitive stage industrialization and development. The slums present in the urban health presents concern for the critical public health and various challenges which are prime among them. The Urban slum areas also faces some major problems that there is absence of predicted Primary Health Center which are having its planned network and health services are administered by multiple health authorities (Hassan and Shukla, 2013).
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