Prevalence of Malnutrition among Adolescent: The Socio-Economic Issues and Challenges in Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Adolescent must have access to health care, nutrition and education. The physical and psychological changes are taking place in this period. Healthy adolescent means healthy future human resource for any country. The well educated and healthy adolescent always leads to development of country. But adolescent health is critical issue in slums of Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The incidence of severe malnutrition among male and female is found much higher in all suburbs. Such incidence is higher for male as compare to female. The physical and electronic asset holding is more among adolescent. But still incidence of severe malnutrition is higher. We have also found that pulses, vegetables, fruits eaten is more among the adolescent but still we found more incidence of malnutrition. At lower educational level of parents, the incidence of malnutrition is higher among adolescent. At lower per capita income, the body mass index of adolescent is found low. If the per capita income increases then body mass index of adolescent also increases. The logistic regression result shows that malnutrition among female is positively co-related with sex, women water related trips, sewing machine, behavior of health staff and still breastfeeding to child. It is negatively correlated with age, weekly required liter of water, milk and hours of breastfeeding. The malnutrition among male is positively co-related with private health care treatment, purify drinking water, electricity, not known any contraceptive method. It is negatively corelated with sex, age, government water supply, cooker, sewing machine, television, bike, hygiene in public health care. The malnutrition among male and female is positively corelated with fan in house and outside food to child. It is negatively co-related with sex, age and watch television, assistance for delivery, child shown to health professional and child care at work. Therefore the policy such as water supply, the health care access to slums especially adole
