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Nutritional and health status of Afghan refugee women living in Punjab: A cross‐sectional study

Afghan refugees are the world's densely populated community, with 2.6 million registered Afghan refugees living globally, of whom about 2.2 million are in Iran and Pakistan. Pakistan is a densely populated country, and due to its low socioeconomic status, food insecurity, unhygienic conditions,...

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Autores principales: Fatima, Maleeha, Nosheen, Farhana, Afzaal, Muhammad, Islam, Fakhar, Noreen, Rabia, Imran, Ali, Amer Ali, Yuosra
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10261817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37324867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.3267
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author Fatima, Maleeha
Nosheen, Farhana
Afzaal, Muhammad
Islam, Fakhar
Noreen, Rabia
Imran, Ali
Amer Ali, Yuosra
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Afzaal, Muhammad
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Imran, Ali
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description Afghan refugees are the world's densely populated community, with 2.6 million registered Afghan refugees living globally, of whom about 2.2 million are in Iran and Pakistan. Pakistan is a densely populated country, and due to its low socioeconomic status, food insecurity, unhygienic conditions, and inadequate access to health care, the Afghan refugees have high chances of being malnourished; the chances of death for these Afghans are 25 times more every year from undernourishment and poverty than those from violence. This study aimed to assess anthropometric and biochemical analyses, their health complications, and the socioeconomic status of Afghan refugee women living in Islamabad Punjab as women are the most vulnerable and highly malnourished group in any community. This cross‐sectional study involved 150 Afghan women aged 15–30 years; they were assessed for their nutritional status using Anthropometric, Biochemical, Clinical and Diet (ABCD). The results indicate the prevalence of underweight, normal weight, and overweight at 74.7%, 16.7%, and 8.7%, respectively. Majority of the women have extremely low hemoglobin (Hb) level, which indicates iron deficiency as well as low body mass index for their age. As the results indicate that there are high chances of severe malnutrition among this most vulnerable segment of the population, this situation must be addressed immediately; the main aim of this study is to highlight the current situation of these Afghan refugees in Pakistan. More research is needed to determine how normal body weight women with low hemoglobin levels are compared to women with ideal body mass index ratios.
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spelling pubmed-102618172023-06-15 Nutritional and health status of Afghan refugee women living in Punjab: A cross‐sectional study Fatima, Maleeha Nosheen, Farhana Afzaal, Muhammad Islam, Fakhar Noreen, Rabia Imran, Ali Amer Ali, Yuosra Food Sci Nutr Original Articles Afghan refugees are the world's densely populated community, with 2.6 million registered Afghan refugees living globally, of whom about 2.2 million are in Iran and Pakistan. Pakistan is a densely populated country, and due to its low socioeconomic status, food insecurity, unhygienic conditions, and inadequate access to health care, the Afghan refugees have high chances of being malnourished; the chances of death for these Afghans are 25 times more every year from undernourishment and poverty than those from violence. This study aimed to assess anthropometric and biochemical analyses, their health complications, and the socioeconomic status of Afghan refugee women living in Islamabad Punjab as women are the most vulnerable and highly malnourished group in any community. This cross‐sectional study involved 150 Afghan women aged 15–30 years; they were assessed for their nutritional status using Anthropometric, Biochemical, Clinical and Diet (ABCD). The results indicate the prevalence of underweight, normal weight, and overweight at 74.7%, 16.7%, and 8.7%, respectively. Majority of the women have extremely low hemoglobin (Hb) level, which indicates iron deficiency as well as low body mass index for their age. As the results indicate that there are high chances of severe malnutrition among this most vulnerable segment of the population, this situation must be addressed immediately; the main aim of this study is to highlight the current situation of these Afghan refugees in Pakistan. More research is needed to determine how normal body weight women with low hemoglobin levels are compared to women with ideal body mass index ratios. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10261817/ /pubmed/37324867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.3267 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Food Science & Nutrition published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Nutritional and health status of Afghan refugee women living in Punjab: A cross‐sectional study
title_fullStr Nutritional and health status of Afghan refugee women living in Punjab: A cross‐sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Nutritional and health status of Afghan refugee women living in Punjab: A cross‐sectional study
title_short Nutritional and health status of Afghan refugee women living in Punjab: A cross‐sectional study
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.3267
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