title: [Nutritional problems in developing countries: priorities for the pediatrician].
abstract: Problems of nutrition in Third World countries must be approached on several levels with different emphases (a) the child (thoroughly tested and economical treatment); (b) mother and child (information about food given to children at home); (c) household (provision of supplies concentrated on households in which growth retardation is observed in children); (d) national (government health programs aimed at improvement of resources available to needy families mus be intensified); (e) international (with a great many specific socioeconomic problems to be tackled). The priorities in our attempts to solve the problems of adequate nutrition for children must be: analysis of the background to existing malnutrition; the development of standardized approaches; special training for medical and paramedical workers involved; evaluation of results; communication of procedures and results to others.
authors.affiliation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Department of International Community Health.
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authors.lastname: Nabarro
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003906:Developing Countries; D006285:Health Planning; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009390:Nepal; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Ernährungsprobleme in Entwicklungsländern: Prioritäten für den Kinderarzt.