RESUMO
Aims & Objectives: To prepare a health profile of children aged 5–13 years studying in Municipal Corporation schools of Ahmedabad & to correlate various morbidities with age & sex of the child. Study Design: Cross sectional descriptive study Sample Size: 513 students from various primary schools of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) aged 5–13 years. Study period: April 2008 to June 2008 Statistical Analysis: Simple proportions, Mean, Standard deviation Result: Mean age of children was 9, 17 years with SD of 7.6.Mean age of males being 9.43 with SD 7.73 & mean age of females was 8.46 SD being 10.05. Majority (60%) of children had no morbidity. Regarding the various morbidities, ENT problems contributed greatest share 86 (16.8 %), proportion of cases being much higher in males. ENT, Oral & Ophthalmic problems affected mainly children in 8–10 years age group while worm infestation was more among children in age group of 5–7 years.Regarding the Ophthalmic morbidities, main cause was refractive errors. Acute Suppurative Otitis media was the main cause of ENT morbidity.