The document discusses child malnutrition in Peru's highlands. It defines malnutrition as an abnormal state caused by nutritional deficiencies or imbalances. It then outlines the basic, underlying, and immediate causes of child malnutrition in the highlands, including poverty, inequality, lack of access to food/healthcare/water. The document also discusses the consequences of malnutrition like decreased vital functions and development. It notes that over 700,000 Peruvian children aged 0-5 suffer from chronic malnutrition, especially in certain highland regions. It concludes by discussing prevention strategies and government/non-profit programs and initiatives working to address the issue.

1. NACIONAL UNIVERSITY
PEDRO RUIZ GALLO
FACULTY OF MEDICINE HUMANIZES

2. Medical English
Dr. Rosa Gonzales
 Calderon Baldera Karen Eliana
 Diaz Mino Marlon Werner
 Fernandez Ferreyra Ana Maria Sofia
 Niño Effio Brenda Stefanny
 Popuche Cabrera Pedro Luis
 Razuri Farro Juan Alessandro

3. Presents

4. Child Malnutrition
on the Highland

5. What is Malnutrition?
Abnormal state of the body caused by deficiencies
of one or multiple nutritional elements, an
imbalance between requirements and nutrient
inputs with onset of clinical symptoms presents on
higland’s Peru.

6. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To inform about the reality of the child malnutrition in the
Peruvian Highland.

7. The causes or factors Determinants of child
malnutrition
BASIC CAUSES
Poverty Inequality Low maternal education
UNDERLYING CAUSES
Lack of access to food Lack of health care Unsafe water and sanitation
IMMEDIATE CAUSES
Insufficient feeding Inadequate attention Diseases
CHILD MALNUTRITION

8. The causes or factors Determinants of child
malnutrition
BASIC CAUSES
Poverty Inequality Low maternal education

9. The causes or factors Determinants of child
malnutrition
UNDERLYING CAUSES
Lack of access to food Lack of health care Unsafe water and sanitation

10. The causes or factors Determinants of child
malnutrition
IMMEDIATE CAUSES
Insufficient feeding Inadequate attention Diseases

11. other causes
High incidence of infectious diseases
Lack of a single vitamin in the diet or because
the person is not getting enough food.

12. other causes
Increased requirements, as for example
in preterm infants

13. CONsecuences
Decrease of:
Capacity of vital functions Ability to work

14. CONsecuences
Decrease of:
Mental development
Growth and development
and intellectual
Individual and social productivity

15. RISks

16. Death
Infections

17. Noncommunicable Diseases
Disease
Heart

18. Floodigs

20. INCIDENts

21. DO YOU KNOW HOY MANY CHILDREN FROM
0 TO 5 YEARS SUFFER FROM CHRONIC
MALNUTRITION IN PERU?

22. Peru is in the 24 % of child
malnutrition, a problem that affects
more than 700000 children

23. In the highland the percentage of children
affected by chronic malnutrition is 32.6 %

24. The regions with the highest rate of
child malnutrition are :
Huancavelica
(44,7%)
Cajamarca
(32,0%)

25. Huanuco
(31,0%)
Apurimac
(30,9%)

26. Ayacucho
(30,3%)
Cusco (29,1%)

27. Ironically, some of them have mineral wealth.

29. In Peru, the chronic malnutrition
is a problem that affects in the main
the population of the region saws.
Therefore the statistics that
show us the evolution
of chronic malnutrition in the Peru.
They reflect indirectly this situation
in the region it saws.

31. In the graph N ° 02 we observe the evolution of the infantile
malnutrition in the high land of Peru,
with diminishing trend from the year 2000, with 39 %,
up to the first semester the year 2011 with 30 %.

33. Basic conditions to anticipate the chronic
infantile malnutrition
CONDITIONS
Attended rich
kid
Result
Child with Fed rich kid
prepared parents
Nourished rich
kid
Child in healthy
housing Rich kid of
health
Child in healthy
community

34. At present the fundamental
period is identified to anticipate
the malnutrition of the child
The pregnancy The first two years of life.
In this stage it is when the basic development
of the child takes place.

35. Actions of prevention:
• Iron
Contribution of vitamins • Folic acid
• Vitamin
and essential minerals
• Zinc
• Iodine
Promotion of the exclusive
lactation up to 6 months of age.

36. Measurement of weight and height,
and detection of cases of sharp
malnutrition.
Promotion of the consumption
of iodized salt.

37. Changes in the sociocultural environment:
Promotion of habits of hygiene, as
the hand wash, to reduce the risk of
diarrhea and other diseases.

38. Actions to achieve a sanitary
suitable attention and training of
sanitary and community personnel.
Creation of suitable facilitie of
water and reparation, and
formation for his maintenance.

39. PROGRAMS OF THE CONDITION FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST
THE INFANTILE MALNUTRITION IN THE SAW OF PERU:
National Strategy of Articulated Intervention of
Fight Against the Poverty and the Chronic
Infantile Malnutrition (To grow).
Priority reduce the poverty to 30 per cent and
the chronic infantile malnutrition to 16% in
2011

40. PROJECTS FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST THE
INFANTILE MALNUTRITION IN THE SAW OF PERU:
Restaurants against the malnutrition, it
feeds your solidarity. Ayacucho. Peru
Of the humanitarian international
organization: Action against the Hunger

41. CONCLUSIONS
We knew that the general determinant factors of the infantile
malnutrition in the Peruvian Highland.
We have learnt the impact and risks that carry the malnutrition.
We also knew about the major impact of the infantile malnutrition
in the departments of the Peruvian Highland.
We understood about the evolution with that the malnutrition has
decreased.
And finally we have known about the prevention and the different
Aid programs in order to avoid the infantile malnutrition in the
Peruvian highland.

42. Thank You So
Much!