Authors : Lata Chourasia, Abhaya Joglekar, Anupama Tamrakar & Swati Soni
Page Nos : 581- 587
Description :
It is a well known established fact that Anthropometric measurements are useful indices for the evaluation of nutrition status of population. To assess the growth in school going girls different measurements like length, height and weight and head circumference. The current analytical study aims to assess the nutritional status of school going girls from two blocks of Raipur district namely Arang & Abhanpur.the present study was carried out with the aim to assess the nutrition status of school going children from arang and abhanpur block of Chhattisgarh, 100 girls from class 9-12 were randomly selecte for the abov purpose. The study quasi experiment design .the data was collect by using following parameters (weight, height ) for the assess of nutrition status .all the data were compared with standard. For Measurements of Height and Weight, weight for height’ and ‘height for age’ index by water low classification was selected. MUAC measurements were also taken and compared with the WHO standards. It was observed that height & weight of all the school girls from both the blocks were significantly lower than NCHS standards.
