Health Profile of Children of 5–13 Years Age Group of Municipal Corporation Schools of Ahmedabad

To prepare a health profile of children aged 5–13 years studying in Municipal Corporation schools of Ahmedabad & to correlate various morbidities with age & sex of the child.

Cross sectional descriptive study

Sample Size: 513 students from various primary schools of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) aged 5–13 years.

Study period: April 2008 to June 2008

Simple proportions, Mean, Standard deviation

Mean age of children was 9, 17 years with SD of 7.6.Mean age of males being 9.43 with SD 7.73 & mean age of females was 8.46 SD being 10.05. Majority (60%) of children had no morbidity. Regarding the various morbidities, ENT problems contributed greatest share 86 (16.8 %), proportion of cases being much higher in males. ENT, Oral & Ophthalmic problems affected mainly children in 8–10 years age group while worm infestation was more among children in age group of 5–7 years.Regarding the Ophthalmic morbidities, main cause was refractive errors. Acute Suppurative Otitis media was the main cause of ENT morbidity.