Method to assess nutritional status of community groups

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Nutritional status referred to this state of the health of an individual as it is affected by the intake and utilisation of nutrients.there are four major methods used to assess nutritional status of individual and population group which includes:

1) Anthropometric measurement:

Anthropometric measures simply refer to the measurement of the body size.besides height and weight measuring body circumference is facility identification of the degree of the body fat and the amount of the lean body tissues that is muscles in the body. It it adds in the identification of PEM and obesity.
1) height for age

2) weight for age

3) weight for height
4) mid upper arm circumference


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