[Analysis of health selective survey result of children and pregnant/Lying-in women in China in 2006]

Wei Sheng Yan Jiu. 2008 Jan;37(1):65-7.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Objective: To gain a information of the current status of the health condition of children and pregnant/lying in women in China, and provide evidence to make the relative police of the state.

Methods: The samples of national representative value were drawn by means of random sampling in layered groups, and recommended standards of WHO were used as the evaluation standard for children' s growth and pregnant/lying-in women's health condition, of the health related information of sample population were got by questionnaire survey and health examination and laboratory test, and statistics and analysis were used with SAS software.

Results: As of time the rates of low body weight of mid and high levels and slow growths in children under the age of 5 year old were 5.9% and 9.9%. Vitamin A deficiency rate in children under the age of 5 year old were 9.1% and the brink deficiency rate of vitamin A were 41.8%. Knowledge coverage rate in parents of under the age of 3 year old were 65.8%. Occurrence rates of in news born were 4.59%, anemia in pregnant/lying-in women were 42% in which anemia in lying-in women and in pregnant women respectively were 49.7% and 37.7%.

Conclusion: Comparing with the survey result in 2002. malnutrition rates in children under the age of 5 year old are getting on the fall, and occurrence rates of new-born are getting rising, and anemia rates in pregnant/lying-in women were high level.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / epidemiology*
  • Child
  • Child Development
  • Child Nutrition Disorders / epidemiology*
  • Child, Preschool
  • China / epidemiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Nutritional Status*
  • Postpartum Period
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic / epidemiology*
  • Prevalence
  • Sampling Studies
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Vitamin A Deficiency / epidemiology*