TY - JOUR
T1 - A home nutritional rehabilitation programme in a Peruvian peri-urban shanty town (pueblo joven)
AU - Fernandez-Concha, Diego
AU - Gilman, Robert H.
AU - Gilman, Josephine B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was supportedi n part by grantsf rom the USAID
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - In a peri-urban shanty town located in Lima, Peru, a nutritional census of children 0-3 years old revealed a number of second and third degree malnourished children. In order to treat these children a home-based nutritional rehabilitation (HNR) programme was developed utilizing available community health staff. The programme focused on individual and group maternal education, home-based therapy such as oral rehydration solution for diarrhoea, periodic growth monitoring, and a strong trust relationship between mother and health professional. There was one death and four (7%) hospital admissions among the 54 HNR children. These morbidity and mortality rates were similar to those achieved by more traditional programmes in Bangladesh, India, and Guatemala. NHR can provide an inexpensive, reproducible method useful for the treatment of malnourished "third world" children in peri-urban slums.
AB - In a peri-urban shanty town located in Lima, Peru, a nutritional census of children 0-3 years old revealed a number of second and third degree malnourished children. In order to treat these children a home-based nutritional rehabilitation (HNR) programme was developed utilizing available community health staff. The programme focused on individual and group maternal education, home-based therapy such as oral rehydration solution for diarrhoea, periodic growth monitoring, and a strong trust relationship between mother and health professional. There was one death and four (7%) hospital admissions among the 54 HNR children. These morbidity and mortality rates were similar to those achieved by more traditional programmes in Bangladesh, India, and Guatemala. NHR can provide an inexpensive, reproducible method useful for the treatment of malnourished "third world" children in peri-urban slums.
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U2 - 10.1016/0035-9203(91)90465-B
DO - 10.1016/0035-9203(91)90465-B
M3 - Article
C2 - 1801362
AN - SCOPUS:0026409337
SN - 0035-9203
VL - 85
SP - 809
EP - 813
JO - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
IS - 6
ER -