Common Nutritional Problems of Public Health Importance in Ethiopia

Improving nutrition is essential to reduce extreme poverty. Since the images of drought & starvation have become inexorably linked with Ethiopia. Malnutrition can best be described in Ethiopia as a long term year round phenomenon due to chronic inadequacies in food instance combined with high level of illness. Children with severe malnutrition are at risk of several life threatening problems like hypoglycaemia, hypothermia, serious infection, & severe electrolyte disturbances. The purpose of book is to provide professionals with an overview of the field, with a focus on major public health problems related to nutrition in Ethiopian including protein energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, & Iron deficiency anemia.