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Malnutrition is found to be a leading killer through out the world with under nutrition in the developing world the main nutrition problem. Why should helpless children suffer from a preventable problem.
Fourteen studies were published in the year 2018 and 42 and 3 have used MNA and MNA-SF tool for nutritional status assessment respectively.
Research study on malnutrition in india. In India about 23 portion of the under five children of our country is malnourished among them 58 is severely malnourished whole rest fall in the group of mild or moderate malnutrition. Malnutrition is found to be a leading killer through out the world with under nutrition in the developing world the main nutrition problem. The World Bank Estimate that India is ranked 2nd in the world of the number of children suffering from malnutrition after Bangladesh 1998 where 47 of the Children exhibit a degree of malnutrition.
Though it seems ironic the leading culprit of malnutrition in India may not be lack of access to food. New studies instead suggest that malnutrition is a result of poor sanitation. Children from developing nations are often exposed to bacteria through germ-infested water.
This exposure affects their bodies ability to grow and develop. Reports of National Health Family Survey United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund and WHO have highlighted that rates of malnutrition among adolescent girls pregnant and. In India 43 of children under 5 years are underweight and 48 are stunted due to severe malnutrition 3 out of every 10 children are stunted 2.
Though studies have identified the factors affecting malnutrition and poverty there has been no study on the association of poverty distribution of welfare card and the nutritional outcome. This paper aims to examine the association of asset deprivation welfare card with stunting and underweight among children in India. Malnutrition was the predominant risk factor for death in children younger than 5 years of age in every state of India in 2017 accounting for 682 95 UI 658707 of the total under-5 deaths and the leading risk factor for health loss for all ages responsible for 173 163182 of the total disability-adjusted life years DALYs.
Different studies in India have shown that more than 50 of elderly population of India are suffering from malnutrition and more than 90 have less than recommended intakeObjectives. The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence and correlates of malnutrition among elderly aged 60 years and above in an urban area in Coimbatore using Mini Nutritional Assessment MNA. India is home to the largest number of hungry people in the world.
The Global Hunger Index GHI 2010 ranks India at 67 out of 122 countries. Whereas the 2012 Global Hunger Index IFPRI ranks it at 65 among 79 countries. Similarly malnutrition in India especially among children and women is widespread acute and even alarming.
The latest National Family Health Survey conducted in 201516 NFHS-4 showed that malnutrition and anaemia still pose huge health challenges in India. Data on 651642 adult non-pregnant women aged 1549 years were taken from the survey to study the nutritional and anaemia statuses of adult women by Indian zone and state. According to the World Bank India is one of the highest ranking countries in the world when it comes to the number of children suffering from malnutrition.
The prevalence of underweight children in India. And Studies ISSN NO. 2348 537X Volume 03 No2 Mar - Apr 2016 e.
74 Child Malnutrition in India. Causes and Intervention Programmes Dr. Sangya Tripathi Assistant Professor Department of Social Work GGV Koni Bilaspur Chhattisgarh ABSTRACT.
As a result nutritional assessments among the adolescent and children play a potential role in formulating developmental strategies and programs in India. The studies of malnutrition at national and local levels have focused predominantly on children under 5 years of age. INTRODUCTION MALNUTRITION is more in India than in Africa.
One in every three malnourished children in the world lives in India. About 50 of all childhood death are because of malnutrition. Malnutrition Among the Children of India India is among the highest of all countries in the world that suffer most from malnutrition in children with 46 under the age of 36 months Wakefield 2011.
Why should helpless children suffer from a preventable problem. Fourteen studies were published in the year 2018 and 42 and 3 have used MNA and MNA-SF tool for nutritional status assessment respectively. 25 studies have mentioned the malnutrition prevalence separately for male and female and 24 have mentioned the prevalence of risk of malnutrition separately for both the genders.
5 studies were conducted in the clinical setting 2 in both OAH. The public health implications of micro-nutrient malnutrition are potentially huge and significant when it comes to the prevention and control of diseases such as HIVAIDS malaria and tuberculosis and diet-related chronic diseases. Global Nutrition Report-2016 by WHO indicated how India still lags behind in tackling malnutrition effectively.
Its connection to malnutrition was established in a series of studies on Malawian children starting in 2013. In one groundbreaking investigation that grew out of that work a researcher considered the link between malnutrition and complex sugars found in breast milk. Mothers with stunted infants had low levels of these sugars.