Anemia ferropriva: uma doença prevalente na infância, uma questão de saúde pública

Abstract

This work aims to show that there is the prevalence of the iron deficiency anemia during the childhood, and for this, we did a bibliographic research in the data bases of BIREME, SCIELO and publications of OMS, giving more attention to the articles published between 2005 and 2010. Anemia is the nutritional problem of greater magnitude in the world, being the children under five years old one of the population groups which suffers the greater risk. As any problem in public health, it has a muticausal origin and, in this way, we try in this study to interpret the direct and indirect relations between this illness and its possible determinant factors. Considering the magnitude of this problem and the comprisement of its risks factors, which were revised in this work, we believe that there is a necessity of an implementation of actions of prevention and methods of treatment of the iron deficiency anemia. Its important to highlight that the use of only one strategy cannot present success if other methods were not applied simultaneously, so its relevant the role of the nutrition education and other implemented actions.