Title |
El estado nutricional infantil en contextos de pobreza urbana: ¿indicador fidedigno de la salud familiar?
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Published in |
Salud colectiva, March 2016
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DOI | 10.18294/sc.2016.870 |
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Authors |
Juliana Huergo, Eugenia Lourdes Casabona |
Abstract |
This work questions the premise that the nutritional status of children under six years of age is a reliable indicator of family health. To do so, a research strategy based in case studies was carried out, following a qualitative design (participant observation and semistructured interviews using intentional sampling) and framed within the interpretivist paradigm. The anthropometric measurements of 20 children under six years of age attending the local Child Care Center in Villa La Tela, Córdoba were evaluated. Nutritional status was understood as an object that includes socially determined biological processes, and was therefore posited analytically as a cross between statistical data and its social determination. As a statistic, child nutritional status is merely descriptive; to assist in the understanding of its social determination, it must be placed in dialectical relationship with the spheres of sociability proposed to analyze the reproduction of health problems. |
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Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 12% |
Student > Master | 3 | 7% |
Other | 2 | 5% |
Professor | 2 | 5% |
Other | 6 | 15% |
Unknown | 15 | 37% |
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Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 15% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 10% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 10% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 2% |
Other | 3 | 7% |
Unknown | 15 | 37% |