What surrounds the Gobi Desert?
The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Taklamakan Desert to the west, by the Hexi Corridor and Tibetan Plateau to the southwest and by the North China Plain to the southeast.
What mountain range is blocking most of the rain from the Gobi Desert?
The Gobi Desert in Mongolia and China is in a rain shadow due to the towering Himalaya mountain range. The Atacama Desert in Chile is in a rain shadow created by both the Andes Mountains and weather patterns over the Pacific Ocean.
What does GOBI FFF stand for?
Growth monitoring, oral rehydration, breast-feeding and immunisation–female education, family spacing and food supplementation (GOBI-FFF) are a selective package of World Health Organisation primary health care strategies recommended by UNICEF.
What is Gobi project?
At present, GOBI’s central project is a multi-year programme of work started in 2016 and funded by Germany’s International Climate Initiative. The project’s overarching objective is to use EBSA descriptions as the basis for promoting environmental protection and management for specific areas of the global ocean.
What is the content of ORS?
Expert Consultation on Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) Formulation
| Reduced osmolarity ORS | grams/litre | Reduced osmolarity ORS |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium chloride | 2.6 | Sodium |
| Glucose, anhydrous | 13.5 | Chloride |
| Potassium chloride | 1.5 | Glucose, anhydrous |
| Trisodium citrate, dihydrate | 2.9 | Potassium |
What are the child survival strategies?
Originally, there were four child survival strategies, namely, growth monitoring, oral rehydration therapy, breastfeeding, and immunization, giving the acronym “GOBI” [10].
How is growth monitoring done?
The best method to assess growth is to measure the child’s size (e.g. weight) and then to repeat the measurements a few months later. The increase in size is due to growth. The greater the increase, the faster the child is growing. If there is no increase, the child is not growing.
Why is it important to monitor a child’s growth?
Benefits of monitoring the growth and development of the child. Weight gain is the most important sign that a child is healthy and is growing and developing well. A health check-up can also detect if a child is gaining weight too fast for his or her age.
How can a baby’s physical growth be monitored?
Weight, length, and head circumference measurements are plotted on growth charts to monitor your baby’s growth over time.