Putting Child Kwashiorkor on the Map
Author: Jose Luis Alvarez, Nicky Dent, Lauren Browne, Mark Myatt and André Briend
Year: 2016
Resource type: Report
This report highlights the importance of kwashiorkor as a public health problem, as reflected by its prevalence and also by the proportion of SAM cases it represents in surveys. Kwashiorkor, is an acute condition, and standard cross-sectional surveys are not adapted to assess the real importance of this problem. The high proportion of kwashiorkor reported among SAM children admitted for treatment in some areas where its prevalence is low shows the difficulty in assessing the extent of this problem.
This report gives, for the first time, a representation of the geographic distribution of kwashiorkor, based on 2,515 datasets with information on more than 1,736,000 individual children collected from 55 countries during the time period 1992 to 2015. It shows that this form of malnutrition occurs most frequently in some parts of Africa, specifically around the equator.
This report also highlights the high variation of malnutrition associated with oedema. Many oedematous children would not be classified as having SAM if only MUAC or WHZ were considered.
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Jose Luis Alvarez, Nicky Dent, Lauren Browne, Mark Myatt and André Briend (2016). Putting Child Kwashiorkor on the Map. www.ennonline.net/childkwashiorkor
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