The last Thursday we had the first meeting with “The Women Leaders in Food and Nutrition Safety” They were from Paxixil y Pueblo Viejo, with the topic “Health Feeding” The purpose of this activity was give education about how to create a health diet with their own resource and then they will able to teach […]
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One day a week one of the physician visits one of three school to do cardiovascular screening with every single child. This screening consist in evaluating the blood pressure (according percentiles), heart sounds, peripheral pulses and clinical signs of anemia. The objective of this intervention is make an earlier diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. If necessary, we could refer
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This intervention consist in performing near and distance visual acuity, eyes movement, pupilar reaction and when it’s possible, a fundus exam with every single child at the school. Distance vision is evaluated with HOTV chart or Snellen chart, near vision is evaluated with Rosembaum chart or with E chart when the child is not able to read. Pupilar reaction is
The deworming in children from 2 years of age is a public health strategy supported both by the health care program of the Ministry of Public Health of Guatemala as well as by the World Health Organization. In children the presence of parasites is directly related to chronic iron and micro nutrient deficiency anemia, growth
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