Prevalence of Malnutrition among Adolescent: The Socio-Economic Issues and Challenges in Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Authors

  • Sanjay Rode

Keywords:

behavior, health care, contraceptive

Abstract

Adolescent must have access to health care nutrition and education The physical and psychological changes are taking place in this period Healthy adolescent means healthy future human resource for any country The well educated and healthy adolescent always leads to development of country But adolescent health is critical issue in slums of Mumbai Metropolitan Region The incidence of severe malnutrition among male and female is found much higher in all suburbs Such incidence is higher for male as compare to female The physical and electronic asset holding is more among adolescent But still incidence of severe malnutrition is higher We have also found that pulses vegetables fruits eaten is more among the adolescent but still we found more incidence of malnutrition At lower educational level of parents the incidence of malnutrition is higher among adolescent At lower per capita income the body mass index of adolescent is found low If the per capita income increases then body mass index of adolescent also increases The logistic regression result shows that malnutrition among female is positively co-related with sex women water related trips sewing machine behavior of health staff and still breastfeeding to child It is negatively correlated with age weekly required liter of water milk and hours of breastfeeding The malnutrition among male is positively co-related with private health care treatment purify drinking water electricity not known any contraceptive method It is negatively corelated with sex age government water supply cooker sewing machine television bike hygiene in public health care The malnutrition among male and female is positively corelated with fan in house and outside food to child It is negatively co-related with sex age and watch television assistance for delivery child shown to health professional and child care at work Therefore the policy such as water supply the health care access to slums especially adole

How to Cite

Sanjay Rode. (2015). Prevalence of Malnutrition among Adolescent: The Socio-Economic Issues and Challenges in Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 15(E8), 13–22. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1576

Prevalence of Malnutrition among Adolescent: The Socio-Economic Issues and Challenges in Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Published

2015-05-15