Olcina Simón M Ascensión, Soriano Jose M, Morales-Suarez-Varela María
Direction Department, MOS Solidaria, 46400 Cullera, Spain.
Observatory of Nutrition and Food Safety for Developing Countries, Food & Health Lab, Institute of Materials Science, University of Valencia, 46980 Paterna, Spain.
Children (Basel). 2023 Mar 27;10(4):627. doi: 10.3390/children10040627.
Nowadays, Ethiopia has several problems affecting children below 5 years of age, resulting in low life expectancies. Our group carried out a study to calculate the presence of malnutrition as wasting, stunting underweight, and BMI-for-age in children presenting in a nutrition center in a rural Ethiopian village in the Oromia region according to WHO guidelines. Our results demonstrated that they had moderate chronic malnutrition or stunting from 1 to 2 years of age, affecting their life, their parents, their community/household, and their country. In our viewpoint, the solution for this situation will require a global focus on several levels, including individual, family, community, and country, the last being with the help of new health policies focused on short-, medium-, and long-term strategies with multi- and interdisciplinary approaches.
如今，埃塞俄比亚存在若干影响5岁以下儿童的问题，导致预期寿命较低。我们的团队开展了一项研究，按照世界卫生组织的指导方针，计算在奥罗米亚地区一个埃塞俄比亚乡村的营养中心就诊的儿童中营养不良（消瘦、发育迟缓、体重不足以及年龄别体重指数）的情况。我们的结果表明，这些儿童在1至2岁时存在中度慢性营养不良或发育迟缓，这影响到了他们自身、他们的父母、他们的社区/家庭以及他们的国家。在我们看来，解决这种情况需要在多个层面进行全球关注，包括个人、家庭、社区和国家层面，最后一点需要借助专注于短期、中期和长期战略且采用多学科和跨学科方法的新卫生政策。
