Nutrition in India: Targeting the First 1,000 Days of a Child’s Life
Ravi, Shamika; Singh, Ramandeep | October 2016
Abstract
Notwithstanding the sizeable economic and social gains made by India over the last two decades, the pernicious, often invisible, challenge of maternal and child undernutrition remains a national public health concern. This undermines the assumption that economic growth is in itself a sufficient condition for improvement in public health. India is home to over 40 million stunted and 17 million wasted children (under-five years) (Raykar et al., 2015). Despite a marked trend of improvement in a variety of anthropometric measures of nutrition (for example, rates of stunting, wasting in children under-five) over the last 10 years, child undernutrition rates in India persist as among the highest in the world. This inequality in access is accentuated by the stark state-level disparity in nutritional status. Malnutrition is also responsible for lowering individuals’ immunity to infections and diseases; for instance, low body weight is responsible for 50 per cent of tuberculosis (TB) in India, and also leads to higher death rate (Swaminathan, 2016). Future growth will require significant investments into human resources of which health investments are critical.
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Ravi, Shamika; Singh, Ramandeep. 2016. Nutrition in India: Targeting the First 1,000 Days of a Child’s Life. © Brookings India. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9060.Keywords
Reproductive Health
Nutrition and Healthcare
Maternal and Child Health
Family Health
Prenatal Care
Nutrition Programs
Child Nutrition
State and nutrition
Food policy
Nutrition policy
Maternity
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Prenatal Care
Nutrition Programs
Child Nutrition
Child Development
Social Conditions
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Nutrition and state
Food policy
Nutrition policy
Cost and standard of living
Economic conditions
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