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AB007. Alcohol & child health in rural Kenya: patterns of use, abuse and associations with child health

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dc.contributor.author Fareena Ahamed, Elizabeth Swedo, Jackie Naulikha, Dalton Wamalwa, Judd Walson, Maneesh Batra, Suzinne Pak-Gorstein
dc.date.accessioned 2019-11-05T08:55:14Z
dc.date.available 2019-11-05T08:55:14Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9604
dc.description.abstract Alcohol is one of the leading contributors to non-communicable disease in the developed and developing world. Children of alcoholic parents have more emotional & health problems, school failure, learning disabilities, and criminality than their counterparts. There are limited studies describing the relationship between parental alcoholism and child malnutrition. In 2014, rates of malnutrition increased at Kisii Teaching & Refferal Hospital in Western Kenya. Community-based participatory research in the Gesoni sub-location of Kisii revealed alcoholism to be a primary perceived cause of adverse child health outcomes and a major health priority for the community. To determine the prevalence of alcohol use and associations with adverse child health outcomes in Gesoni, Kenya. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.title AB007. Alcohol & child health in rural Kenya: patterns of use, abuse and associations with child health en_US
dc.type Learning Object en_US


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