Prevalencia y factores relacionados con desnutrición en la primera infancia. Colombia año 2018 a 2020

Abstract

Malnutrition as a disease of social origin is the ultimate expression of the situation of food and nutritional insecurity of a population, mainly affecting children. The objective was to analyze the prevalence and factors related to malnutrition in early childhood in Colombia during the years 2018 to 2020, through a descriptive quantitative study of an ecological-exploratory type, with retrospective data collection from reports obtained from the Integrated System of Social Protection Information. The total number of cases corresponds to 43,823 reports, the prevalence for the three years was 1.13%, mainly in the departments of Guajira (n: 3,488; 3.17%) and Boyacá (n: 1,277; 1.39%). greater number of cases presented in males (n: 23,804; 54.3%), aged between 0 and 1 year (n: 17,099; 39.0%), belonging to the subsidized regime (n: 28,814; 65.75%) and located in the municipal seat (n: 28,114; 64.15%). In relation to ethnicity, the highest frequency is evidenced in “other ethnic groups” (n: 33,050; 75.42%), followed by the indigenous ethnic group (n: 8,348; 19.05%), and the most representative socioeconomic stratum is the “low-low” (n: 17,620; 40.21%). In addition, there is a relationship between the male sex and malnutrition, behaving as a risk factor, and living in a populated center decreases the probability of presenting malnutrition. A significant frequency of characteristics associated with the social determinants of health and specific variables related to malnutrition was evidenced.