Use of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference for Evaluation of Nutritional Status of Children and for Identification of High-Risk Groups for Malnutrition in Rural Bangladesh (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Improving health of children, aged less than 5 years, is now one of the main objectives of primary healthcare services in most developing countries. The goal of the World Health Organization (WHO), 'Health for All by the Year 2000,' seems not to be attainable, particularly for children, in the absence of comprehensive primary healthcare programmes in developing countries to include a provision for improving the nutritional status of mothers and young children.