Abstract

This study aims to conduct physical and medical health checkups of children from the capital and uburbs of Cambodia to consider how to improve their health. The study was conducted from December 018 to December 2019. The subjects were 1,201 children (boys are 590, girls are 611) in the capital and ,038 children (boys are 2021, girls are 2017) in the suburbs, aged 6 to 12 years, with a male-female ratio f around 0.5. The children in the capital were from seven private elementary schools, and the children n the suburbs were from nine public elementary schools. Of these, 41 children from the capital and 8 from the suburbs participated in internal medicine health checkups. The data were measured by the ambodian NGO staff trained by Japanese nurses and Cambodian teachers, and Japanese Physicians. For he analysis, body mass index and Rohrer index were calculated for the physical evaluation, students's -test and internal medicine was evaluated descriptively. As a result, we clarified the physique disparity etween children in the capital and the suburbs and the benefits of the school health chekups.