Nearly One-Third Of Under 5 Children In Vietnam Are Malnourished, Survey…
By Kaiser GH Update“Nearly a third of pre-school children in Vietnam suffer from malnutrition and stunted growth, while in urban areas rates of childhood obesity are rising,” according to a report released Thursday by the country’s National Institute of Nutrition, Agence France-Presse reports. The study, based on a survey of more than 37,000 people conducted in 2009 and 2010, showed that more than three million children under the age of five, mainly in poor, rural areas of the country, “were malnourished, underweight or suffered from growth deficiencies,” according to the news agency. Conversely, “[c]hildhood obesity rates have seen a six-fold rise since 2006 and now run at up to 15 percent in wealthier urban areas including the capital Hanoi and southern Ho Chi Minh City, according to the survey,” AFP writes (4/6).
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Nearly One-Third Of Under 5 Children In Vietnam Are Malnourished, Survey…
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on Apr 6 2012. Filed under Kaiser's Global Health Update, Malnutrition, Noncommunicable Disease.
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