A prospective study of growth and nutrition of Aboriginal children from birth to two years in North-West Australia

摘要: I11-health is very prevalent in Australian Aborigines whose infants and children are often undernourished have high rates of infections, particularly the respiratory gastrointestinal tracts [1–4]. The levels morbidity which exist young demonstrated by hospital admission Aboriginal for gastroenteritis Western Australia being 16 to 20 times those non-Aboriginal [5]. Despite seriousness these problems, there little systematic information about factors communities cause unfavourable poor growth their usually associated with infections. “Kimberley Mothers’ Babies’ Project” was undertaken several remote Kimberley region tropical far north Australia, has one largest populations full-blood investigate circumstances at community level. present paper reports some aspects project document maternal environmental were health outcomes a prospectively studied cohort 48 born region.