État nutritionnel et environnement pathogène d'enfants d'une population forestière du Sud-Cameroun
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4658376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivier Bernard (0000-0002-0463-9747, Histoire Naturelle des Humanités Préhistoriques), Hélène Pagezy (Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée), Daniel Bley (Université de Bordeaux) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers du Centre de recherches anthropologiques (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1297-7810 • E-ISSN: 1777-5469 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/bmsap.6014 |
| OpenAlex | W1804385879 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 9 |
Growth in height and weight is considered as indicators of nutritional status; they respond to both genetic and environmental factors such as nutritional value of the diet, exposition to infectious and parasitic diseases, sociocultural and psychoaffective context. This study concerns the relationship between splenomegaly as an indicator of a chronic context of parasitic load and the growth in height or weight of preschool children from rainforest Southern Cameroon. The anthropometric study shows that 31,6% of the 0-6 years old children are stunded and 3,6% wasted. The height retardation follows the evolution of the spenomegaly. The results are in accordance with the importance of infectious factors, especially paludism in the installation and the perenniality of a chronic malnutrition status
Art · Gynecology · Humanities · Ile de france · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Medicine
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |