Estado nutricional de menores entre 5 y 18 años atendidos en la posta de salud san pedro – las delicias, empleando medidas antropométricas durante los meses de marzo – junio del 2008”

• Autor: Pacheco Moncada, Edwin Esteban
• Formato: tesis de grado
• Fecha de Publicación: 2009
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
• Repositorio: UNITRU-Tesis
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:dspace.unitru.edu.pe:20.500.14414/2745
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14414/2745
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Medidas antropométricas, Menores, Estado nutricional

The present study was carried in the San Pedro’s Relay Health – Las Delicias, during May - June 2008, with the intention of determining the nutritional state of the minors between 5 and 18 years of age that they came to thus place. The sample was shaped by a whole of 277 minors between 5 and 18 years. Anthropometrics indicators were used like: Weight / height, Height / age, Index of Corporal Mass, classifying the nutritional condition under sharp malnutrition, normal malnutrition and obesity. During the study it was obtained that the Nutritional State of more prevalencia in the population of minor among 5 to 18 years that were assisted in the Post San Pedro is the Normal, being observed a high incidence of obesity (30.32%) In agreement to the obtained results it is indispensable to recommend corrective policies that they carry to the improvement of the quality of life of the population of minors of “Las Delicias” zone