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An Assessment of Health Status of Street Children in Tangail, Bangladesh

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The study was conducted in a regional city Tangail, which is located in the central part of Bangladesh and well connected with the capital city Dhaka. There were 10% gamines and 90% street boys selected for the study from the twelve different upazilas in Tangail applying the simple random sampling method. Results divulged to contribute 66.67% underweight and 33.33% normal weight street children. According to the study, 34.97% children were different works doers and also about 65% were absolute work abstainers. The mainstream (85.5%) children were the three times and another 14.5% were two times daily meal eaters. Most children (85.3%) washed their hand before taking meal, 57.5% taken bath daily and 59.8% of them were diseases sufferers in the last 3 months prior to conducting study.

Published in Science Journal of Public Health (Volume 4, Issue 1-1)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Childhood Malnutrition in Developing Countries

DOI 10.11648/j.sjph.s.2016040101.11
Page(s) 1-5
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Keywords

Health status, street children, malnutrition, Tangail district, Bangladesh

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  • Department of Food Technology and Nutritional Science, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail, Bangladesh

  • Department of Food Technology and Nutritional Science, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail, Bangladesh

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