Incidence of Obesity and Malnutrition Am ong School-Aged Children of The District Malaka

ABSTRACT
Obesity and malnutrition are worldwide health problem so the aims of the study were to assist the obesity and nutritional deficiencies among school-aged children. Institutional based cross-sectional study designs were used. In which total of 6000 children between the ages of 4-15 years were studied. A systematic random sampling technique was applied for sample collection. A total of 6000 students were participated in this study. The numbers of male students and females students were same. All the students were from primary and high school. The overall results show that out of 6000 students the ratio of underweight were 415(7%) and obese (6.1%) respectively. Our study shows that nutritional factors are important since obesity and overweight increase with socioeconomic status as well as with nutritional intake. So Obesity was found High socioeconomic status groups should be directed for overweight while underweight and nutritional deficiency is a problem of lower socioeconomic status. Meat, Milk intake and lack of physical activity have been identified in the current study. We observed that a strong relation was found in nutrition with food intake and socioeconomic status.