Report on a nutrition survey of high income urban children in Malawi

ABSTRACT

During November 1990 to January 1991 a survey of the nutritional status of high income urban children in a sample of 18 pre-schools in Blantyre; Zomba; and Lilongwe was carried out. The results confirm that high income Malawian children have a similar growth pattern to the NCHS/WHO International Child Growth reference population (WHO 1984) which is based on a sample of healthy North American children. The consistently shorther stature of rural Malawian children is not a result of ethnic differences but reflect socio-economic and environmental factors which affect nutritional status