La desnutrición y su incidencia en el bajo rendimiento escolar

Abstract

The purpose is for authorities, teachers, fathers and mothers to act actively within the institution, recognizing that malnutrition is a social problem generated mainly by poverty, cultural patterns, neglect of health, lack of information on feeding programs children, etc., by promoting good healthy eating habits, schoolchildren will be allowed to maintain good physical, emotional and intellectual development. To verify the existence of malnutrition, the respective anthropometric assessment was carried out to determine the weight and height of the children, in addition an observation guide was applied in the facilities of the establishment, an interview was also applied to authorities, teachers, fathers and mothers with which it was found that within the educational community there are problems of malnutrition and poor school performance