A Study to Assess the Knowledge and Practices on Vitamin A Deficiency among School Children in Naziabad (District), Telangana, India.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
India has some of the high rates of VAD in the world. Each, year it is associated with the deaths of 330,000 children in India alone. Although vitamin A status has improved in the past few decades, a survey by the National Nutritional Monitoring Bureau indicates that 57 percent of Indian children-35.4 million childrenwere vitamin A deficient in the late 1990s. Data also suggests that while VAD affects both rural and urban households, it generally results from malnutrition. School children physical activity is a more than preschooler. They enjoy long periods of play, careless about their cloths, food and body clean less. Many food habits likes and dislikes are established in this age. They continue to need healthy foods and nutritious snacks and improve dietary habits. The school children had lack of knowledge on vit ‘’A’ deficiency. The education in this aspect promote preventive and health maintenance behaviors among school children thus by taking above all factors into consideration the investigator feel the need to conduct a study on a on vit ‘’A’ deficiency among school children in selected Government schools, in Nizamabad District.Telengana.
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Thunga Usha Rani M. Sc.
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