Underlying Causes of Malnutrition

Baby Boy a 3 mo. old child was diagnosed with diarrhea and vomiting

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Father of baby Malupiton doesn’t have enough income in a day for selling turon. They need to budget the daily earning of 65 pesos for their food allowance for the whole family.

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Alice seeks healthcare services in the center and admittedly doesn’t have any idea with regards to healthy food preparation for her family, the RND needs to counsel her to increase her nutrition knowledge because she doesn’t know anything.

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Diwata family is experiencing hunger because they have their large family size.

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VP Shimenet Mae L, asked for the budget re—alignment for the 2025 for nutrition related services (to be used in program implementation to increase food security, conduct feeding programs for identified MAM and SAM) to cut-off by 10 million pesos based on the proposal. 

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Inadequate health services in some provinces is still a problem specially for GIDAs and IPs in far flung areas due to lack of funding.

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Diets with low iron content in the consumption of pregnant mother in the community

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Poor breastfeeding practices were found during the community assessment for children U-5

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Sarah a 4 y/o child have been diagnosed with stunting

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Upon the Assessment for Harry it has been found that he has a Body Mass Index of 28.73 kg/m2

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