A Review Study on the Effectiveness of Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers in the Field of Severe Acute Malnutrition

Author: Tripti Dhawan and K.N. Singh

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Abstract

Child mortality is the major problem faced by all the developing countries and Severe acute malnutrition is the major cause of all the mortality and morbidity in children under the age of five years. Government has started lots of programmes regarding nutritional care of mother & child in order to improve their nutritional status. Nutrition Rehabilitation Center is one of them. This center is only for severely acute malnourished children of 0-5 years. Nutrition Rehabilitation Center has been developed with the aim to enhance the status of nutrition of children through provision of quality health services and nutritional care to children under the age of 5 years. To conclude this study, we reviewed many national and international researches spanning over a year to assess the effectiveness of Nutrition Rehabilitation Center in the field of Severe Acute Malnutrition. Secondary data has been used to perform this synthetic review. The source of this data is mostly online data base like Google, Pub Med, Research Gate etc. We searched articles which were based on Nutrition Rehabilitation Center, Severe Acute Malnutrition, child malnutrition, mother and child malnutrition etc. We conducted a detailed review of all papers, articles and reports on the bases of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Nutrition Rehabilitation Center is a government initiative towards Severe Acute Malnutrition. It’s helpful to combat malnutrition. Therapeutic diet F-75, F-100 are showed positive results on Severe Acute Malnutrition children. Nutrition Rehabilitation Center plays an effective role in combating Severe Acute Malnutrition in our community, but lack of awareness plays a negative impact on programme as well as on community health.

Keywords

Nutritional rehabilitation center, Severe Acute Malnutrition, Under nutrition, Community based nutrition programme, Malnutrition

Conclusion

On the basis of above studies, we conclude that malnutrition can be considered as a silent killer. Malnutrition is under reported and unrecognized or late identified in small and backward areas’ children due to lack of awareness. Malnutrition is a life-threatening issue in developing countries like India. Poverty, education, socio-economic status and many more factors are negatively associated with Severe Acute Malnutrition. Education is a weapon by which people not only be able to fight with circumstances but also people can help themselves in such kind of conditions. Nutrition Rehabilitation Center is a very good governmental approach but due to lack of awareness and information, population is not able to utilize full benefit of this scheme. Nutrition Rehabilitation Center have work with major objectives which are documented in guidelines given by World Health Organization. There are some basic parameters on which children are admitted in Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers. These guidelines also contain information about infrastructure, required equipment, human resource, medicines, diets and also financial framework. This will provide directions and guidelines for setting up new Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers and definitely will be effective if implementation is done efficiently. It’s a very good approach and provides community-based treatment. For best result we need higher and inclusive standards of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Once admitted children should be treated with the established modus operandi. And continuous monitoring of child should be done. If child don’t show any progress, they should refer to higher facility center. When the child is discharge from the facility proper follow-up should be mandatorily done. Education, awareness and knowledge with desire to fight Severe Acute Malnutrition will helpful to reduce malnutrition. Reduction in poverty is a major step against malnutrition.

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How to cite this article

Tripti Dhawan and K.N. Singh (2023). A Review Study on the Effectiveness of Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers in the Field of Severe Acute Malnutrition. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(2): 702-707.