Estrategia de prevención de malnutrición fundamentada en el tamizaje neonatal a través del método clínico de Metcoff

Abstract

Child malnutrition is a widely distributed pathology, as studied, the approach through the concept of the thousand days improves the understanding of the process as well as the opportunities for intervention that can influence the eradication of the pathology and improve the quality of life of the child and the future adult. This documentary investigative work addresses child malnutrition due to deficit and describes the development from the moment of conception to 2 years of age around fetal metabolic reprogramming, particularly in the third trimester of pregnancy and compensatory growth. "Catch up growth", opens the window to malnutrition in the immediate, mediate, future postnatal period, the introduction of sensitive CANS core tools that allow early detection of fetal malnutrition by labeling patients within a group of high nutritional risk in conjunction with those with explicit alterations of deprivation suffered in pregnancy. Thus, a proposal for a community strategy is proposed based on four axes: Early diagnosis of subclinical malnutrition, prioritization of the quality of health services, quality of data collection systems, and social participation that are articulated with management strategies. optimize economic, political and institutional efforts for the eradication of child malnutrition.