scholarly journals Undernutrition and Its Correlates among Children of 3–9 Years of Age Residing in Slum Areas of Bhubaneswar, India

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ansuman Panigrahi ◽  
Sai Chandan Das
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Susceptibility To Infection ◽  
Early Initiation Of Breastfeeding ◽  
Toilet Facility ◽  
Small Family Size ◽  
Slum Community ◽  
Initiation Of Breastfeeding

Undernutrition among children is a major public health concern worldwide, more prevalent in Asia and Africa. It manifests itself in various forms such as wasting or stunting or underweight and retards physical and mental development, increases susceptibility to infection, and reduces educational attainment and productivity. The present study was undertaken to assess the level of wasting, stunting, and underweight and determine its associates among slum children of 3–9 years of age, residing in Bhubaneswar city, India. After obtaining informed consent, a total of 249 children from 249 households were studied and their parents/guardians were interviewed to collect all relevant information. 23.3%, 57.4%, and 45.4% of children were found to have wasting, stunting, and underweight, respectively. Variables like birth order of child, period of initiation of breastfeeding and mother’s education were found to be strong predictors of wasting, whereas toilet facility in household and practice of drinking water storage were significantly associated with stunting among slum children as revealed in multiple regression analysis. Thus, a multipronged approach is needed such as giving priority to improve education for slum community especially for women, creating awareness regarding benefits of early initiation of breastfeeding, small family size, and proper storage of drinking water, and providing toilet facility in slum households which could improve the nutritional status of slum children.

scholarly journals Aeromonas detection and their toxins from drinking water from reservoirs and drinking fountains

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Tereza Pepe Razzolini ◽  
Marisa Di Bari ◽  
Petra Sanchez Sanchez ◽  
Maria Inês Zanoli Sato
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Membrane Filtration ◽  
Biochemical Characterization ◽  
Toxin Production ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Emerging Pathogen ◽  
Pathogenic Potential ◽  
Drinking Water Samples

Aeromonads are inhabitants of aquatic ecosystems and are described as being involved in intestinal disturbances and other infections. A total of 200 drinking water samples from domestic and public reservoirs and drinking fountains located in São Paulo (Brazil), were analyzed for the presence of Aeromonas. Samples were concentrated by membrane filtration and enriched in APW. ADA medium was used for Aeromonas isolation and colonies were confirmed by biochemical characterization. Strains isolated were tested for hemolysin and toxin production. Aeromonas was detected in 12 samples (6.0%). Aeromonas strains (96) were isolated and identified as: A. caviae (41.7%), A.hydrophila (15.7%), A.allosacharophila (10.4%), A. schubertii (1.0%) and Aeromonas spp. (31.2%).The results revealed that 70% of A. caviae, 66.7% of A. hydrophila, 80% of A. allosacharophila and 46.6% of Aeromonas spp. were hemolytic. The assay for checking production of toxins showed that 17.5% of A. caviae, 73.3% of A. hydrophila, 60% of A. allosacharophila, 100% of A. schubertii, and 33.3% of Aeromonas spp. were able to produce toxins. The results demonstrated the pathogenic potential of Aeromonas, indicating that the presence of this emerging pathogen in water systems is a public health concern.

scholarly journals USAGE PATTERN OF HOUSEHOLD DRINKING WATER IN DIARRHEA IN LAND OF BUMBU YEAR 2016

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dicky Andiarsa ◽  
Syarif Hidayat ◽  
Ika Setianingsih
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Usage Pattern ◽  
Water Access ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
The World ◽  
Pre Treatment

ABSTRACTDiarrhea has been long a public health concern in the world especially to infants and children. Diarrhea can be caused by many factors including sanitation, clean and healthy behavior, and access to clean water, consumption of drinking water and food, and so on. The results of the research in Tanah Bumbu Regency stated that some of the main causes related to the incidence of diarrhea in Tanah Bumbu Regency included Sanitation, Healthy and clean behavior, clean water access, and drinking water access. Secondary data analysis held to define the scheme of drinking water consumption in families with diarrhea patients in Tanah Bumbu Regency. The result showed that the most families with diarrhea consumed refill drinking water (67.06%) with most of them did not do any pre-treatment to the water (81.55%). The water consuming pattern has been changed to community of Tanah Bumbu Regency by consuming refilling water. Processing (boiling) refilling water before drinking can reduce the risk of diarrhea.Keywords: refilling drinking water, diarrhea, drinking water consumption patterns

scholarly journals Inorganic Arsenic in Drinking Water: An Evolving Public Health Concern

2007 ◽  
Vol 99 (12) ◽  
pp. 906-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Lubin ◽  
L. E. Beane Freeman ◽  
K. P. Cantor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Inorganic Arsenic ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern

Teachers' Knowledge of Facts and Myths about Suicide

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 651-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
General Information ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Community Members ◽  
School Teachers

Suicidal behavior is a serious public health concern that has prompted the development of prevention strategies, which include increasing community members' knowledge about suicide. Given that teachers are in a key position to recognize and respond to suicidal behavior, this study examined teachers' knowledge about suicide to identify how they need to be educated relative to its prevention. 82 Canadian school teachers from middle and high schools were administered a revised version of the 32-item Facts on Suicide Quiz to examine their knowledge of suicide. Analysis indicated that general information about suicide was limited, while knowledge of clinically relevant information about suicide, e.g., “Suicide rarely happens without warning,” was relatively high.

An Overview of Dementias

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Venkata Vijaya K. Dalai ◽  
Jason E. Childress ◽  
Paul E Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Current Treatment ◽  
Great Variability ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Common ◽  
Neurodegenerative Dementias ◽  
Made In

Dementia is a major public health concern that afflicts an estimated 24.3 million people worldwide. Great strides are being made in order to better diagnose, prevent, and treat these disorders. Dementia is associated with multiple complications, some of which can be life-threatening, such as dysphagia. There is great variability between dementias in terms of when dysphagia and other swallowing disorders occur. In order to prepare the reader for the other articles in this publication discussing swallowing issues in depth, the authors of this article will provide a brief overview of the prevalence, risk factors, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, current treatment options, and implications for eating for the common forms of neurodegenerative dementias.

Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Evans ◽  
Charlotte Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
Fat Bodies

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.

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