Abstract

VALLEJO-SOLARTE, María Emma; CASTRO-CASTRO, Luz Marina  and  CEREZO-CORREA, María del Pilar. Nutritional status and social determinants in children between 0 and 5 years old from the community of Yunguillo and "Red Unidos" in Mocoa, Colombia. Univ. Salud [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1, pp.113-125. ISSN 0124-7107.

Objective: To establish the nutritional status of children from 0 to 5 years old from the community of Yunguillo and from "Red Unidos" of the municipality of Mocoa 2014 and its relationship with social determinants. Materials and methods: A descriptive, correlational study with probabilistic sampling for the "Red Unidos" population and total population of Yuguinllo was made. Two questionnaires adapted from the National Survey of Health and Colombia Nutrition - NSHCN 2010 and the National Demographic and Health survey - NDHS 2010 were applied to the parents and an instrument for child anthropometric measures registration was designed. Its application included their informed consent. Results: 117 children of Yunguillo were evaluated as well as 122 from "Red Unidos". It was found that there is 1.7% and 1.6% of acute malnutrition, 23.1% and 14.5% of global malnutrition, 43, 6% and 24.2% of delay in the size, and 12.8% and 9.7% of obesity respectively. Relationship between the indicator height/age and educational level of the father was found as well as the supplementary feeding programme membership and the indicator weight / age and gender. The access to public services, housing, education and occupation in both groups are poor. Conclusions: Children of both communities have malnutrition problems reflected in the high percentage of chronic malnutrition, overweight and general malnutrition. Statistical differences were observed in the indicator height-for-age when comparing children of the Yungillo group with those from "Red Unidos".

Keywords : Nutritional status; indigenous; vulnerable populations; social health determinants.

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