The Health of the Coloured Child in Great Britain

Gans, Bruno

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“…In West Indian toddlers I have not seen severe degrees of hypoalbuminaemia, but low normal values are the rule rather than the exception. (Gans, 1964).…”

Section: By Bruno Gans Lewisham Hospital London Se 13mentioning

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“…She may be unaware of the existence or function of these clinics, but more commonly still she may not be able to avail herself of the clinic service because she goes out to work and does not return home until after the clinic has closed. Hence the need, in all areas of high immigrant density, for evening infant welfare clinics (Gans, 1964).…”

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The nutritional status of West Indian immigrants

Gans

1967

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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218 SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS I967during late foetal development and the amount of folate in the liver. However, the mean birth weight of Asians is less than that of English babies born in Bradford and at all gestational ages the individual birth weights of Asians were nearly always relatively low; there was a relatively high proportion of Asian babies in which the amount of iron in the liver was small. Thus, there is a little evidence that the Pakistani infant born in this country may be slightly worse off nutritionally than the English infant, but the extent of the inquiry so far is not sufficient to justify firm conclusions about this.

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“…In West Indian toddlers I have not seen severe degrees of hypoalbuminaemia, but low normal values are the rule rather than the exception. (Gans, 1964).…”

Section: By Bruno Gans Lewisham Hospital London Se 13mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: By Bruno Gans Lewisham Hospital London Se 13mentioning

confidence: 99%

The nutritional status of West Indian immigrants

Gans

1967

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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Nutrition in the Caribbean

Aykroyd

1965

J. Hyg.

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1. In many parts of the Caribbean there is a high mortality between 6 months and 2 years due to malnutrition and gastro-enteritis. These two conditions are so closely inter-connected that they can conveniently be regarded as a single syndrome, for which the term ‘weanling diarrhoea’ has recently been suggested. The clinical picture revealed by visits to children's wards was in line with the vital statistics.2. The prevalence of malnutrition and gastro-enteritis in infants and young children is the result of child-feeding practices characteristic of the area. The duration of breast-feeding is shorter than in Africa and Asia. After 3 months or so breast-feeding, if it does not cease altogether, becomes partial, and in general there is a steady change in the direction of less breast milk. In some territories weaning at an even earlier stage in infancy seems to result in the common occurrence of malnutrition in infants under 6 months of age.3. The foods given to supplement or replace breast milk include processed cow's milk, starch roots and fruits and cereals. Imported processed milk supplies good quality protein otherwise lacking in the child's diet, but the use of expensive proprietory infant milk foods, out of line with family purchasing power and given in over-diluted form, is among the causes of malnutrition. The use in infant and child feeding of dried skim milk-much the cheapest kind of milk in terms of nutritive value-is increasing and this trend should be encouraged.4. Most of the malnutrition is of the ‘marasmic’ type. Classical kwashiorkor, now comparatively rare, was seen more often 5–10 years ago.5. It is suggested that the conventional practice of grouping deaths in the periods 0 to 1 and 1 to 4 has, in the Caribbean and other developing areas, retarded recognition of the importance of malnutrition and gastro-enteritis as the principal cause of death during and after the weaning period. The analysis of mortality statistics according to shorter age intervals is desirable.6. Further studies and action are recommended concerned with the following: the continuing analysis of mortality and morbidity statistics to elicit relationships with malnutrition; child feeding practices in the different territories; the social and economic background of individual victims of malnutrition and of the feeding errors responsible for their condition; improvement in the treatment of malnourished children; the scope and efficiency of maternal and child health services; the distribution of dried skim milk and its extension.7. The establishment of a Caribbean Nutrition Centre will contribute to the prevention of malnutrition and help in solving long-term problems of food supply and nutrition in the area.

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Social and cultural factors in health of children of immigrants.

Hood¹

1971

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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The Health of the Coloured Child in Great Britain

Cited by 8 publications

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The nutritional status of West Indian immigrants

The nutritional status of West Indian immigrants

Nutrition in the Caribbean

Social and cultural factors in health of children of immigrants.

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