Mother’s Health Awareness and Nutritional Status of Children in Khartoum State-Sudan

Abstract

Family health is an essential matter. Mother plays a vital role concerning providing health care for her family. She bears the responsibility of taking care of her children’ 's health needs and caring for older adults or sick relatives (1). She is also responsible for their foods, hygienic measures and health requirement. The mother is also responsible for upbringing healthy infants and children as she take the decision regarding their health and illness. Many studies have shown that the most important factors affecting family health are mother’ s education, age, economic status, her knowledge and attitudes towards preventive measurement, treatment of diseases and how to promote health (2-5).