Anaemia among Kenyan children: a call for improved monitoring and intervention in school-aged children | Zendy

Emelda A. Okiro | Zendy; Noel K. Joseph | Zendy; Caroline W. Gitonga | Zendy; Robert W. Snow | Zendy

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Anaemia among Kenyan children: a call for improved monitoring and intervention in school-aged children

Author(s) -

Emelda A. Okiro,

Noel K. Joseph,

Caroline W. Gitonga,

Robert W. Snow

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

transactions of the royal society of tropical medicine and hygiene

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725

H-Index - 105

eISSN - 1878-3503

pISSN - 0035-9203

DOI - 10.1093/trstmh/traa032

Subject(s) - kenya , medicine , intervention (counseling) , pediatrics , environmental health , biology , nursing , ecology

Anaemia has long been recognised as a major public health problem among young children in lower- and middle-income countries and is an indicator of both poor nutrition and health status. There has been little progress towards improvement of anaemia in part due to its complex aetiology. An added impediment to the progress is that the monitoring of anaemia does not routinely target the whole population, with school-aged children (SAC) largely overlooked.

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