Social environment and outpatient recovery from malnutrition

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Abstract
It is generally recommended that the evaluation of child nutrition programs in tropical countries should be carried out routinely by the staff. Data collected in this way at a Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit in Uganda attempts to relate the recovery of outpatients to social factors in their home environment. Because of the complexity of these influences and the limitations of the data this attempt is only partially successful. The future collection of such data should be more specific and planned more carefully. To this end a hypothetical model is presented outlining the complex interrelations between social variables and their influence on recovery.

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