Role of Community Infrastructure in Improving Nutrition in Under-Five Children for Better Implementation of Integrated Child Development Services

Sarkar, Jaimini; Sarkar, Chiradeep

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“…In India, 26 million children are born every year. Children (0-6 years) comprise 13% of the country's total population [3]. Studying the Under-Five Mortality Rate is important from a public health perspective.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Individual Level and Community Level Approach for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals for Under-Five Mortality Rate

Sarkar,

Sarkar

2024

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Introduction: In the year 2022, 4.9 million children died worldwide before five years of age. United Nations General Assembly has set the target of bringing down under-five child mortality to 25 deaths per 1000 live births by 2030. However, the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation highlights, that without rapid action many low and Lower Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) will not be able to achieve this target and 35 million under-five children will die before 2030. In such a scenario understanding the determinants that bring down preventable deaths in children is important. Design: Anonymized, publicly available data from the India National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) is collected. The sample consisted of 724,115 women in the age group of 15-49 years has been sub-grouped as urban and rural women. Data on the number of Anganwadi centers per state has been collected from the Ministry of Women and Child Development. For better analysis of data, the country is divided into regions. Union territories are grouped in these regions as per their geographical locations. Descriptive statistical analysis, correlation coefficient analysis, and linear regression analysis were done. Results: Results of the Pearson correlation indicated that there is a significantly large positive relationship between operational AWCs (%) and U5MR (r = 0.542, p < .001) whereas there is a significantly large negative relationship between women with Internet access (%) and U5MR, (r = -0.738, p < .001). For our data, the multiple regression equation for y is U5MR (per 1000 live births) = 0.77266. AWCs (%) - 0.58788. women with Internet access (%) + 53.68073. Conclusion: Compared to NFHS-4 (2015-16) U5MR has reduced in almost all states of the country. The study shows more urban women have access to the Internet as compared to rural women. Child mortality is higher in rural areas in every state as compared to urban areas. Urban women have more access to health information because of internet access which may be the reason for lesser child mortality in urban areas compared to rural areas. Internet access for women (individual level) is far more effective in bringing down U5MR if compared to the community-level approach of Daycare centers.

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Comparative Analysis of Individual Level and Community Level Approach for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals for Under-Five Mortality Rate

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Sarkar

2024

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Impact of integrated child development scheme on nutritional and health status of children

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2024

Children and Youth Services Review

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Role of Community Infrastructure in Improving Nutrition in Under-Five Children for Better Implementation of Integrated Child Development Services

Cited by 2 publications

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Comparative Analysis of Individual Level and Community Level Approach for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals for Under-Five Mortality Rate

Comparative Analysis of Individual Level and Community Level Approach for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals for Under-Five Mortality Rate

Impact of integrated child development scheme on nutritional and health status of children

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