Nutritional Status of the Sekmai Children, Manipur
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12030279 |
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| Authors | H Jibonkumar (Manipur University, corresponding author), T Shyamacharan Singh (Manipur University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 183-191 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0393-9383 • E-ISSN: 1824-3096 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11599-006-9018-x |
| OpenAlex | W2081712407 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper reports on nutritional status of 4 to 10 year-old Sekmai children. The Sekmais belong to a section of the Meiteis of Manipur. They are included in the scheduled caste list of the state. The study is based on height and weight of 731 children, 360 boys 371 girls. It aims to throw light on different conventional methods of nutritional assessments based on height and weight and their varied results. The Sekmai children are shorter in height and lighter in body weight from the American (National Center for Health Statistics) and Indian children in all the age groups. According to Waterlow’s classification of height for age, 43.37% of the Sekmai children are malnourished, whereas Gomez’s classification of weight for age shows 68.67% as malnourished of different grades. But if we look at the classification of Vishveshwara Rao and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics classification (IAPC), the Sekmai children’s nutritional status is not disappointing. Rao’s classification of height for age reveals 88.37% as normal while that of IAPC shows 71.70% as normal. Waterlow’s classification of weight for height also depicts 89.74% of the children as normal
Body weight · Caste · Environmental health · Health statistics · Malnutrition · Population · Weight for Age · Demography · Medicine · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Gerontology · Internal Medicine · Pediatrics
| Highly cited | No |
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