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Nutritional State of Children in Jalalaksi Refugee Camps, Somalia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

A. Shek Hussein ,
M.I. Yussuf ,
G. Tarsitani  and
A. Curti
A. Shek Hussein
Affiliation:
Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Somali National University, Mogadishu, Somalia and Rome, Italy
M.I. Yussuf
Affiliation:
Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Somali National University, Mogadishu, Somalia and Rome, Italy
G. Tarsitani
Affiliation:
Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Somali National University, Mogadishu, Somalia and Rome, Italy Institute of Hygiene G. Sanarelli, University Degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
A. Curti
Affiliation:
Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Somali National University, Mogadishu, Somalia and Rome, Italy Institute of Hygiene G. Sanarelli, University Degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Abstract

Migration of whole populations, driven by natural calamities or war in search for safe territory, has come to the attention of International Organizations. The sanitary situation of refugee camps in Somalia which take care of the nomad populations arriving from the contested Ogaden territory, has been studied in Nov.-Dec. 1980 at the refugee camp of 3alalaksi. A study of the environment and organization of the camp was made to examine housing, water supply, sewage and alimentation. The nutritional state of refugees was recorded. The anthropometric data of 1185 children, including weight, height and arm circumference according to age and sex have provided interesting comparisons.

Type
Section Five—Disaster Events
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Fall 1985 , pp. 305 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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