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...
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...
Recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a survey on child under-nutrition in rural India in 2010-11 (Hunger and Malnutrition Survey,HUNGaMA). Sadly,the new data reinforced the existence of an India marked by substantially low levels of something...
Inadequate dietary intake is a critical underlying determinant of child
undernutrition. This study examined the association between anthropometricbased
and food-based nutritional failure among children in India. We used the
2015-2016 National Nutrition...
Anthropometry is the most commonly used approach for assessing
nutritional need among children. Anthropometry alone, however, cannot
differentiate between the two immediate causes of undernutrition:
inadequate diet vs disease. We present a typology of...
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)...
Since the publication of our study, the Government of India has released
preliminary estimates from the on-going latest round of National Family
Health Surveys (2015–2016) on the prevalence of stunting, underweight
and wasting for a limited number of states...
The provisional verdict from the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2019-20 factsheets on the burden of child undernutrition is not encouraging, with few exceptions. For the most part, this assessment has relied on the measure of a...
The National Family Health Survey is analysed to develop critical insights on child anthropometric failure in India. The analysis finds non-response of economic
growth on nutritional well-being and greater burden among the poor as two
fundamental concerns...