Anthropometry is
the part of anatomy used to do external measurement of human body to assess
underlying disease, like assessing the nutritional status of a child.
The 254 Anganwadi
children between age group 1 to 6 years of urban Mangalore during 2013year,
measurements are calculated using WHO growth standard in assessing weight.
The underweight
denotes in respect to age but doesn’t pin point whether acute or chronic, but
the stunting
is due to chronic malnutrition, the axial skeletal growth is stunted.
Concludes that lower socioeconomic status and malnutrition are interrelated,
which hampers the normal physical, intellectual, psychological development of
children, there by affects the progress of the country.
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