Assessment of Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Immunization Status of Under-Five Children in An Urban Area of Kancheepuram District

The nutritional status of the children of a country has a direct bearing on its development. Giving a child a solid nutritional start has a positive impact on his/her physical, mental and social development. A child’s nutritional future begins before its conception itself .It begins with the mother’s nutritional status prior to pregnancy. A chronically-undernourished mother is likely to give birth to an underweight baby, who may be stunted as a child and in turn give birth to a malnourished baby. The sampling method applied to choose the required study population was Systematic Random Sampling. There were 4565 children under 5 years of age in the study area as per the records of UHTC. The list of under five children in this locality which is the sampling frame was obtained from UHTC on the basis of geographical order.