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Nutrition & Mortality Survey in Aden Governorate. September 2012. Implemented by: Nutrition Department & Aden Governorate Public Health and Population Office With Support of: UNICEF & ECHO. Objectives. Overall objective.
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Nutrition & Mortality Survey in Aden Governorate September 2012
Implemented by:Nutrition Department &Aden Governorate Public Health and Population OfficeWith Support of: UNICEF & ECHO
Overall objective To establish accurately the nutrition situation in Aden Governorate, determine some of the factors influencing malnutrition.
Specific objectives • To estimate the level of acute malnutrition (wasting), stunting and underweight among children aged 6-59 months in Aden Governorate. • To identify factors influencing nutrition status of the children in Aden including disease prevalence and access to essential services. • To estimate the prevalence of some common diseases (measles, diarrhoea, fever and ARI) in the Governorate. • To estimate the measles and polio vaccination and Vitamin A supplementation coverage among children in the Governorate. • To estimate the crude and under-five mortality rates in the Governorate.
Specific objectives • To determine the average households who did reduce meal size, lower number of meals, sleep hungry, use debts to buy food, and lower expenditures in health and education to buy food. • To estimate the prevalence of using adequately iodized salt in the Governorate.
Quality concern • Small number of teams with focus training. • Standardization of measurers. • Field test before conduct the data collection. • Intensive supervision at field. • Daily check for the quality. • Data entry verification
Findings Household characteristics
Findings Children aged 6 – 59 months
Acute Malnutrition (Wasting) mean±SD of WHZ (n=1094) : -1.09±1.01
Underweight mean±SD of WAZ (n=1099) : -1.29±1.02
Chronic malnutrition (Stunting) mean±SD of HAZ (n=1086) : -0.97±1.07
Findings Mortality
Crude and underfive death rates Per 10000 per day