Nutritional and Vaccination Status of Children in the Terre Noir Neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

BACKGROUND: History of International Nutritional Measurement and Definitions: For many years, growth has been measured as a surrogate for the overall health of individuals and populations. Though this method is insufficient for understanding the complete health of an individual or population, it acknowledges that many physiologic processes must converge to achieve normal growth. Historically, young children have been the focus of surveys of growth because they are most at risk of having their physiologic processes of growth disrupted. Child growth is a proxy for a child’s nutritional status, which itself is a marker of dietary intake and overall health. Under the UNICEF conceptual framework on causes of malnutrition, dietary intake and overall health status are related to food, health, and care resources, which are themselves determined by the political and economic structures and sociocultural environments in a country.Master of Public Healt