日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

chinadaily.com.cn
left corner left corner
China Daily Website

Rural children face nutrition gap

Updated: 2012-06-01 15:32
By Shan Juan ( China Daily)

Rural children face nutrition gap

A rural child eats instant noodles for lunch at Lijiaping Elementary school, Shanxi province, May 11, 2012. [Photo/CFP] 

Ministry of Health report says kids in countryside are at greater risk

A major gap exists between the nutritional status of Chinese children under 5 in rural and urban areas, according to a report issued by the Ministry of Health on Thursday.

The report also said that rural children are at greater risk of malnutrition due to economic strains and unexpected events.

Given that the government has already introduced measures to help improve the nutrition of school-age children, the report focuses mainly on preschoolers, said Qin Huaijin, director of the Department of Maternal and Child Health and Community Health under the ministry.

According to the report, the prevalence of children who were underweight or had stunted growth was three to four times higher in rural than urban areas between 1990 and 2010.

The situation in impoverished rural areas was even worse, it said.

Regionally, children in central and western China were two to three times more likely to suffer malnutrition than children in the east, where the overall economic situation was much better.

"Sometimes, better nutrition points to a higher chance of survival," said Yin Shi'an, a food safety and nutrition researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

A report by the World Health Organization said that 22 percent of the deaths of children under 5 in China were attributable to malnutrition in 2000, but that number had fallen to 13 percent by 2010.

A majority of them were in the poor countryside, Yin noted.

"The nutritional status and overall development of rural children whose parents sought employment in cities were especially concerning," he said.

Official statistics showed that China has more than 150 million children under 5 who are left behind in rural hometowns, as their parents are migrant workers.

According to the report, they are 1.5 times more likely to be underweight or face stunted growth than rural children with parents by their sides.

Childhood nutrition can affect lifelong health and "we hope the government would list the improvement of child nutrition as a national strategy and integrate that into the overall national development plan to further enhance the nutrition of the children," urged Qin.

With economic development, government measures like the China Infant and Young Child Feeding Strategies, as well as the promotion of breastfeeding, child nutrition and physical development has greatly improved on the Chinese mainland, he said.

Also, the mortality rate for children under 5 has dropped by 73 percent since 1990, the study showed.

Huo Junsheng, director of the Food Science and Technology Department of China CDC, said the biggest nutrition problem was deficiencies of vitamins A and D, iron, calcium and zinc, which can affect their school performance and future economic productivity if left unaddressed.

shanjuan@chinadaily.com.cn

 
 
...
...
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 中文一区二区 | 日韩黄视频 | 久久视频在线免费观看 | 六月丁香在线视频 | 久久午夜国产精品 | 91国产精品 | 天天干天天草天天射 | 久久不卡影院 | 狠狠干狠狠操 | 张津瑜国内精品www在线 | 在线中文视频 | 日本精品视频在线观看 | 成人h视频在线观看 | 久久影视中文字幕 | 青娱乐av | 久久视频网 | 国内自拍第一页 | 麻豆视频91 | 欧美日一区二区 | 国产图区 | 国产精品一二三区 | 日韩国产一区二区三区 | 色婷婷综合在线 | 久久国产精品免费视频 | 欧美日韩视频在线播放 | 国产精品第 | 中文字幕一区二区三 | 超碰97国产| 精品日韩一区二区三区 | 小草av| 日韩影视在线 | 99免费在线视频 | 97在线观| 午夜天堂av | 2021亚洲天堂 | 精品成人一区 | 成人黄色短视频 | 9.1人成人免费视频网站 | 在线中文字幕网站 | 天堂网亚洲| 中文字幕视频网站 |