Health profile of school children in an Egyptian village

ABSTRACT

This study was carried out in Senhera village, Kaluobia Governorate. The total population sample was 105 pupils from primary and preparatory schools. The pupils were chosen by systematic random sample. Aim of this work is to give some informations about health profile of school children in this rural area. The results of the study revealed that most of studied sample were from moderate socioeconomic standard [65.71%], general condition were good [35.24%] and poor [17.14%] among studied sample. Mean height of studied sample in cm. was 137 +/- 10.5 and mean weight in kg was 40.2 +/- 17. The good educational ability was 19.05% among studied sample. The percentage of Schistosoma haematobium, Schistosoma mansoni, pinworm infection and Giardia lamblia among studied sample were 4.76%, 6.67%, 11.43% and 12.38% respectively. The researchers recommended that upgrade the quality of health of school children and rising the level of their health education