Abstract
The aim of study was to evaluate the prevalence of disorders of physical development in children in the South Kazakhstan region by using international criteria. The study included 1498 children between the ages of 6.5 and 7.5 years. Estimated prevalence of stunting, lack of weight gain, overweight and obesity with obesity and isolation was performed using standard techniques above 2007 and WH0-CDC-2000. The prevalence of stunting, underweight, overweight/obesity and obesity was 3.4 (95 % CI 2,6-4,4) %, 6.5 (95 % CI 5,3-7,8) %, 15.9 (95 % CI 14,1-17,8) % and 3.1 (95% CI 2,3-4,1) % using the WH0-2007 criteria, respectively. The prevalence of stunting, underweight, overweight/obesity and obesity was 3.5 (95 % CI 2,7-4,6) %, 8.9 (95 % CI 7,6-10,5) %, 13.4 (95 % CI 11,8-15,2) % and 0.9 (95 % CI 0.6-1.5) % using the CDC-2000 criteria, respectively. We found that the prevalence of underweight in urban children is almost twice as high than among rural children irrespectively of gender.