School-age children: their nutrition and health.

Abstract

This paper addresses the most common nutrition and health problems in turn assessing the extent of the problem; the impact of the condition on overall development and what programmatic responses can be taken to remedy the problem through the school sys- tern. The paper also acknowledges that an estimated 113m children of school-age are not in school the majority of these children living in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. Poor health and nutrition that differentially affects this population is also discussed. (excerpt)