Food and nutrition situation in the villa Santa Chacoma, Hancara, Hichuraya Grande and Pan de Azucar communities of the Ingavi province in the department of La Paz, Bolivia 1996

• Main Author: Iglesias Sandoval, Teresa Beatriz
• Format: Others
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 1997
• Subjects: Malnutrition; Bolivia; Life Sciences; Medicine and Health
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5377; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6376&context=etd

A diagnosis of the Food and Nutrition situation was made of the populations of the communities of Villa Santa Chacoma, Hancara, Hichuraya Grande and Pan de Azúcar, pertaining to the Ingavi province of the La Paz department. The principle objective was to: identify the Nutritional Food Situation of these communities, the secondary objectives were to: Identify the nutritional state of the inhabitants of the communities, identify the physical availability of food, identify the habits of breastfeeding and supplementary feeding, identify the level of ingestion, establish the consumption of food and identify the level of education of householders; to these ends a cross-sectional descriptive study was designed, with a scope that is limited to the entire population of these communities. The data found in the prevalence of malnutrition in children under 18, according to the indicators of Weight/Age, Weight/Height and Height/Age which are significantly higher. The Global Nutritional State (P/E) presented a 21%, the actual nutritional state (P/T) has a prevalence of 19%; according to the indicator of Height/Age reflecting the nutritional history of child malnutrition showed a prevalence of 32%. These types of malnutrition are expressed more intensely in the male sex and groups of 6 to 17 years. The highest prevalence corresponds to the chronic malnutrition which indicates the under nourishment that children from the earliest years of life and which manifests itself as time goes on.