Volume 9 : Issue 1 (2022)

Comparative Study of Nutritional Status of Urban and Rural Children

Children are an important wealth of the nation and play a supportive role in nation-building. Only if they remain healthy then they could design the future of the nation for that, they should get healthy food. If children don’t get these food elements in sufficient amounts, they can face malnutrition and it also affects children’s health. As a result, such children get sick constantly and their physical development stops. Such children remain weak in the study. According to the medical examination of children, the average number of healthy children in urban areas is 80% and in rural areas it is 62.5%. Weight, height, and shoulder size of urban children are respectively found 16.15, 97.70, and 15.87. Rural children’s weight, height, and shoulder size are respectively found 14.93, 96.42, and 14.73. And the difference was found as per the Chi square test. According to the above data, the method which was used to determine the diet status of the urban and rural area children as per its conclusion it’s found that the diet status to be degraded in a rural area. Parents of rural areas work in the fields for entire day and unable to pay proper attention toward their children and Parents in urban areas seem to be more aware. If we make the economical comparison between urban and rural areas, it would be found that the economic status of the urban areas is good than the rural area.

Children, Malnutrition, Health, Nutritional status

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