IJCM_42A: Nutritional Assessment and Association of Malnutrition with Food Insecurity among Adolescent Females of Age 15-19 Years in an Urban Slum of Raipur City

IJCM_42A: Nutritional Assessment and Association of Malnutrition with Food Insecurity among Adolescent Females of Age 15-19 Years in an Urban Slum of Raipur City

Background: Adolescent girls constitute about one-tenth of our country’s population. They suffer the brunt of malnutrition due to increased nutritional needs; compounded by urbanization, peer and social pressure. They are food insecure either due to unavailability, lack of resources or lower priorit...

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Main Authors: Galhotra Abhiruchi, Das Sakthi, Shukla Arvind K
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2024-04-01
Series:Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Subjects:
nutritional assessment
adolescent females
malnutrition
anthropometry
food insecurity
Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_abstract42

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