Health status of under five children living in urban slums Roja V R1, Galhotra Abhiruchi2, Rajan Ancil V3, Malarout Namesh4, Pateria Shilpa5, Kamath Rajesh6,* 1Research Scientist, Department of CFM, AIIMS, Raipur 2Additional Professor, Department of CFM, AIIMS, Raipur 3Nursing Officer, AIIMS, New Delhi 4Scholar, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka 5Postgraduate Trainee, MHA Program, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka 6>Assistant Professor, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka *Corresponding author: Dr. Rajesh Kamath, Assistant Professor, Room no.12, Second floor, Old Tapmi building, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal University, Karnataka-576104 E mail: Rajeshkamath82@gmail.com Mobile: 7760218342
Online published on 1 November, 2018. Abstract The primary objective of the research was to study the health status of children under the age of 5 years living in urban slums. This study included 224 under-five Children living in urban slums of Udupi Taluk, Karnataka. A total of 17 urban slums were selected randomly. Cluster random sampling was used. A total of 224 under-five children participated in the study. The mean age of the children was 28±1.6 months. The majority were boys (58.5%). Among the 224 children assessed in this study only 8.5% could be classified as healthy, 40.6% as moderately healthy and 54.5% as unhealthy. In this study, we found that the overall health status of children aged between 1 month to 60 months based on morbidity, immunization status and nutrition status was unhealthy. Top Keywords Health status, under 5 children, urban slums. Top |