Title: Health and sicknesses of children. What to do to protect children's health.

POPLINE Document Number: 314790

Author(s):

Werner D
Thuman C
Maxwell J

Source citation:

In: Where there is no doctor: a village health care handbook, by David Werner with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell. Berkeley, California, Hesperian, 2006. :295-322.

Abstract:

It is important that children eat the most nutritious foods they can get, so that they grow well and do not get sick. The best foods for children at different ages are: in the first 6 months: breast milk and nothing more; from 6 months to 1 year: breast milk and also other nutritious foods--such as boiled cereals, mashed-up beans, eggs, meat, cooked fruits and vegetables; from 1 year on: the child should eat the same foods as adults--but more often. To the main food (rice, maize, wheat, potatoes, or cassava) add 'helper foods' as discussed in Chapter 11; Above all, children should get enough to eat--several times a day; All parents should watch for signs of malnutrition in their children and should give them the best food they can. (excerpt)

Keywords:

United Kingdom
Manual
Recommendations
Evaluation Indexes
Children
Child Health
Child Nutrition
Infant Nutrition
Hygiene
Immunization
Growth
Anthropometry
Health Status Indexes
Europe, Western
Europe
Developed Countries
Quantitative Evaluation
Evaluation
Youth
Age Factors
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Population
Health
Nutrition
Public Health
Primary Health Care
Health Services
Delivery of Health Care
Child Development
Biology
Measurement
Research Methodology