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Salud colectiva
Print version ISSN 1669-2381On-line version ISSN 1851-8265
Abstract
HUERGO, Juliana and CASABONA, Eugenia Lourdes. Child nutritional status in contexts of urban poverty: a reliable indicator of family health?. Salud colect. [online]. 2016, vol.12, n.1, pp.97-111. ISSN 1669-2381. http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2016.870.
This work questions the premise that the nutritional status of children under six years of age is a reliable indicator of family health. To do so, a research strategy based in case studies was carried out, following a qualitative design (participant observation and semistructured interviews using intentional sampling) and framed within the interpretivist paradigm. The anthropometric measurements of 20 children under six years of age attending the local Child Care Center in Villa La Tela, Córdoba were evaluated. Nutritional status was understood as an object that includes socially determined biological processes, and was therefore posited analytically as a cross between statistical data and its social determination. As a statistic, child nutritional status is merely descriptive; to assist in the understanding of its social determination, it must be placed in dialectical relationship with the spheres of sociability proposed to analyze the reproduction of health problems.
Keywords : Nutritional Status; Child; Family Health; Argentina.