Research Article
Risk Factors of Protein Energy Malnutrition Deficiency among Children Under Five Years at Alruhal Camp-Kass Locality South Darfur State 2012 Sudan
Ahmed M Hussein* and Dawria AdamFaculty of Public Health, Shendi University, Sudan
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- Ahmed M Hussein
Faculty of Public Health
Shendi University, P.O.Box 142, Sudan
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Received date: September 25, 2015 Accepted date: December 02, 2015 Published date: December 07, 2015
Citation: Hussein AM, Adam D (2015) Risk Factors of Protein Energy Malnutrition Deficiency among Children Under Five Years at Alruhal Camp-Kass Locality South Darfur State 2012 Sudan. J Bacteriol Parasitol 6:252. doi: 10.4172/2155-9597.1000252
Copyright: © 2015 Hussein AM. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Abstract
This cross-sectional descriptive study to measure the risk factors of protein energy malnutrition deficiency, this study designed to cover (n=384 child), the study shows that most affected children were those whose families income per month was less than 250 SDG, (18.5%), The prevalence of malnutrition increase among children there is mothers illiterate (13.4%), the study found that the male more affected (12.5%) than female (8.5%) and children there age (6-12 month most affected 7.7%).
