Malnutrition among School Going Children in Pakistan

Children are considered to vital concern in the process of development. Therefore, investment in children's health is the key element in improving the economic, political and social condition in Pakistan, particularly for Province Punjab in the Context of sustainable development. The present study aims at understanding the different factors which affect malnutrition on school going children's in rural Pakistan.A sample size of 85 Secondary school going children was drawn with the help of multistage random sampling technique by collecting sampling frame from the concerned rural union council secondary schools. Cross tabulations were drawn with the help of SPSS V.16 to show the relationship between different variables. Significancehas been found after the statistical test between family incomes, level of family education with the eating habits of children.