Descriptive Study of Children's Nutritional Status and Identification of Community-Level Nursing Diagnoses in a School Community in Africa.
Pedro MeloMaria Isabel SousaMatilde Mabui DimandeSónia TaboadaMaria Assunção NogueiraCarlos PintoMaria Henriqueta FigueiredoTam H NguyenJosé Ramón Martínez RieraPublished in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2020)
a nursing diagnosis and diagnostic criteria for nutritional status and community management were identified. The need to intervene using a multidisciplinary public health approach is imperative, with the school community as the unit of care. In addition, reliable anthropometric data were identified as important criteria to complement the nursing diagnosis and guide future public health interventions.