An assessment of the nutritional status of young black school children in the Albany Magisterial District, Eastern Cape

Fincham, Robert John

Title: An assessment of the nutritional status of young black school children in the Albany Magisterial District, Eastern Cape
Title: Development Studies Working Paper, no. 3
Creator: Fincham, Robert John
Subject: Schools -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Africans -- Nutrition Nutrition surveys -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Malnutrition -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Children -- South Africa -- Nutrition
Date Issued: 1981
Date: 1981
Type: Book
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2172
Identifier: vital:20262
Identifier: ISBN 0868100773
Description: This working paper covers a survey conducted between 16 and 30 January 1980 of 3 171 black Sub A and Sub B pupils 8 years old or younger, at schools in both the rural and urban areas of the Albany Magisterial District, Eastern Cape. The survey, under the auspices of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Rhodes University, was carried out as a result of a request from Dr J. D. Krynauw, Regional Director of Health Services in the Eastern Cape, to assess levels of nutrition of black children. Newspaper reports (see Appendix 1) of low levels of nutrition and high infant mortality rates among young black children in the Eastern Cape appeared to suggest a chronic nutritional situation, a situation not perceived as such by the Department of Health. A comprehensive pilot study was instituted on written request from Dr Krynauw in late October 1979. A report of the pilot study findings was presented in May 1980 to the Department of Health (Fincham, 1980). The present paper elaborates on that report and also includes analyses of data not presented before.
Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Format: 42 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Language: English
Relation: Development Studies Working Paper, no. 3
Rights: Rhodes University
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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