title: The socio-economic aspects of malnutrition in Sicily.
abstract: Malnutrition clinical conditions in Sicily, Italy, are examined. Malnutrition today is a result of excess of eating, while immediately after the Second World War, it was a result of deficiency of eating. The main interest in this study is to examine the relationship between social and nutritional conditions in children who are a vulnerable part of the whole population. This is also confirmed by other data reported on this subject, in Sicily.
authors.affiliation: Instituto di Pediatria, Università degli Studi, Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: La Grutta
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mancuso
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology; D012802:Sicily / Q000453:epidemiology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors