Plants For Sustanable Food Security and Malnutrition: Ethonobotanical Apporoch
- Author Deore C.R.
- DOI http://wwj
- Country : India
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Keywords : Nandurbar, Malnutrition, deforestation, sustainable food security
Abstract
To establish the cause of death with some certainty is not always possible after the death has occurred, especially when the respondent (mother) is illiterate, when only symptoms can be described by her and when the health status of the child has not been monitored by a doctor prior to death. To resolve this constraint and to assess the extent to which malnutrition could have caused the deaths we took anthropometrical measurements of siblings below the age of 6 years from the families who had lost children. This was done in addition to questioning the mothers regarding the cause of death of their children.
The nutritional status of surviving siblings is important to estimate the nutritional status of the dead children. Since the economic and cultural environment is common, the nutritional status of siblings and deceased children is likely to be similar. Therefore, if the siblings are malnourished it can be assumed that the dead children were likely to be the same.
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