Trends in malnutrition among children in India: Growing inequalities across different economic groups

Pathak, Praveen Kumar; Singh, Abhishek

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.024

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“…This is majorly attributable to increases in survival chances at early ages which mainly depend on improvement of child health care services. Though, there are reports and studies (RGI, 2007;IIPS andMacro-Internationals, 1992-2006;Singh et al, 2011;Kumar and Mohanty, 201;Pathak and Singh, 2011; which reported progress in reduction of child mortality, nutrition status and children basic vaccinations in India in recent past. However, there is dearth of studies which empirically assessed the convergence or divergence in observed progress in child health status across the states and social groups.…”

Section: Demographic Transition and Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Joe et al, 2009;Pradhan and Arokiasamy, 2010;Saikia et al, 2011;Pathak and Singh, 2011;Kumar and Mohanty, 2011;Subramanian et al, 2007Subramanian et al, , 2009Po and Subramanian, 2011;Subramanyam and Subramanyam, 2011;. However, there are no studies which have assessed convergence in relative and absolute distribution of health status across the population sub-groups.…”

Section: Health Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Demographic Convergence and its Linkage with Health Inequalities in India

Goli

2014

SSRN Journal

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Section: Demographic Transition and Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Health Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Demographic Convergence and its Linkage with Health Inequalities in India

Goli

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…The prevalence of child malnutrition in India is amongst the highest levels found in any country in the world and almost twice that of Sub-Saharan African countries [29], despite its progress in food production, disease control, economic and social development [30]. In case of child malnutrition, India ranked 117 among 119 countries [31].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inter-Linkages between Spousal Violence and Nutritional Status of Children: A Comparative Study of North and South Indian States

Sinha¹,

Chattopadhyay²

2017

Social Crimonol

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In the context of higher rates of child malnutrition and widespread occurrence of spousal violence in India, the present study aimed to explore whether maternal experience of spousal violence have any association with nutritional status of their children using data on selected North and South Indian states from the National Family Health Survey (2005)(2006). Our findings from bi-variate and multivariate analysis established spousal violence, which indicates the position of women within family, as a significant factor determining child nutritional status in both regions. Children whose mothers had experienced any form of physical/sexual violence were significantly more likely to be underweight compared to non-abused women. Higher educational attainment among mothers significantly reduced the likelihood of under nutrition among their children. On the other hand, higher body mass index which reflects better health status of mothers also had a significant effect in reducing the chances of malnutrition among children. Thus, the study provided adequate evidences to establish the fact that health and social status of women are critical in determining nutritional status among children. Elevating women's power relative to men's is strongly recommended to reduce malnourishment among children. Integration of violence screening and counselling with MCH programmes could be helpful in addressing the specific needs of women and children and provide essential support.

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“…One of the major setbacks to India's national policy for health is widespread inequality in child nutrition along with the burden of malnutrition that was/is disproportionately concentrated among poor children [4]. Historically, most of the study on inequality focused on economic inequality ignoring the class-caste nexus.…”

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The Caste-Wealth Nexus and Child Nutrition: A Study of Empowered Action Group of States in India

2016

IJSR

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Children are the most precious and sensitive nutrition sub-group of a nation. It is accepted that there is high death rate in children because of severe forms of malnutrition. The Scheduled Tribes (STs) or Adivasi and Scheduled Castes (SCs) were always economically and socially deprived group of the Indian society. The Empowered Action Group (EAG) states are the most vulnerable states in India. Moreover, no one study focuses on this socially deprived a group of society in the EAG-states. This paper seeks to examine the inequality in child nutrition among SCs/STs and non-SCs/STs of poor and non-poor households and its determinant in EAG-states of India using the third round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3). The analysis has used the cross-sectional data of NFHS-3 conducted during 2005-06 by using bi-variate and multivariate technique. Bi-variate has been used for obtaining the prevalence of stunting, wasting, and underweight in SCs/STs and non-SCs/STs between poor and non-poor children. Elsewhere, multivariate analysis has been used to find out the associated factors of child malnutrition. Findings from the analysis show that nearly two out of three under-five children were stunted and underweight whereas one out of three were wasted in poor households. Every second SCs/STs children were stunted (51%) in non-poor households. However, less than half of non-SCs/STs children were stunted (43%) and underweight (36%) in non-poor households. Mother's education, duration of breastfeeding, birth order and interaction between caste and wealth index were the significant (p<0.05) contributing factors for stunting, wasting and underweight. The SCs/STs of poor and non-poor households and non-SCs/STs of poor families children were more malnourished than non-SCs/STs of non-poor households. Findings suggest that for reducing the economic inequalities and caste effect there should be separate policy and making services more accessible to SCs/STs and poor non-SCs/STs to improve childhood nutrition in EAG-states.

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Trends in malnutrition among children in India: Growing inequalities across different economic groups

Cited by 106 publications

References 27 publications

Demographic Convergence and its Linkage with Health Inequalities in India

Demographic Convergence and its Linkage with Health Inequalities in India

Inter-Linkages between Spousal Violence and Nutritional Status of Children: A Comparative Study of North and South Indian States

The Caste-Wealth Nexus and Child Nutrition: A Study of Empowered Action Group of States in India

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