[Nutritional disorders and primary health care. Analysis and strategic approach in the Mauritanian Adrar region]

Abstract

Disorders of nutrition, prevalent in the Adrar (a region of Mauritania), as registered in the activities of care units in Atar and similar structures, involved in nutritional concerns are first, protein caloric malnutrition, with serious consequences in high infant mortality. Equally hazardous, Vitamin A deficiency results in serious ophthalmological complications (blindness). Anemia is a common problem among pregnant women. There is, moreover, obesity of a socio-cultural nature, whose pathological consequences should not be neglected. Target populations are children for malnutrition and vitamin deficiency, and adult women for obesity and anemia. In any case, it is in the wide-spread awareness of primary health care and community health that the disorders mentioned will be prevented.