Researchers from the Geographic Insights Lab at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Institute of Economic Growth geo-visualised diet, anthropometric and clinical indicators for children across districts in India and provide a...
As per the latest National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau, which has been collecting data on diet and nutritional status of rural, tribal and urban populations for almost four decades, the calorie intake of children (1-3 years) in rural areas was only about...
In India, monitoring and surveillance of health and well-being indicators have been focused primarily on the state and district levels. Analysing population data at the level of parliamentary constituencies has the potential to bring political...
About two of every five undernourished young children of the world live
in India. These high levels of child undernutrition have persisted in India for
several years, even in its relatively well-developed states. Moreover, this
pattern was observed during a...
Undernutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill-health and premature
mortality among children in developing countries. This paper examines how
the prevalence of undernutrition in children is measured and argues that
the standard indices of stunting...
In India, data on key developmental indicators that formulate policies and interventions are routinely available for the administrative units of districts but not for the political units of Parliamentary Constituencies (PC). Members of Parliament (MPs)...
Stunting and chronic undernutrition among children in South Asia remain
a major unresolved global health issue. There are compelling intrinsic and
moral reasons to ensure that children attain their optimal growth potential
facilitated via promotion of...
We assessed district-level geospatial trends in precision weighted prevalence
and absolute wealth disparity in stunting, underweight, wasting, low
birthweight, and anemia among children under five in India. The largest
wealth disparities were found for...
Leg length has been suggested as a proxy for nutritional and environmental
exposures in childhood given the associations observed in some Western
populations. Sanjay Kinra et al. present a careful assessment of this
hypothesis in an Indian population in...
The complex etiology of child growth failure and anemia—commonly used
indicators of child undernutrition—involving proximate and distal risk factors
at multiple levels is generally recognized. However, their independent and
joint effects are often assessed...
Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) is a widely used indicator of adequate
dietary micronutrient density for children 6–23 mo old. MDD food-group data
remain underutilized, despite their potential for further informing nutrition
programs and policies. We aimed...
Many interventions focus on preventing stunting in the first 1,000 days of life.
We take a broader perspective on childhood growth to assess the proportions
of children who suffer persistent stunting, recover, and falter and become
newly stunted between...