Nutrition in India. National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) India 2005-06 (original) (raw)
This report provides clear evidence of the poor state of nutrition among young children women and men in India and the lack of progress over time based on measurements of height and weight anaemia testing testing for the iodization of household cooking salt utilization of nutrition programmes and information on child feeding practices and vitamin A supplementation. Young children in India suffer from some of the highest levels of stunting underweight and wasting observed in any country in the world and 7 out of every 10 young children are anaemic. The percentage of children under age five years who are underweight is almost 20 times as high in India as would be expected in a healthy well-nourished population and is almost twice as high as the average percentage of underweight children in sub-Saharan African countries. Although poverty is an important factor in the poor nutrition situation nutritional deficiencies are widespread even in households that are economically well off. Inad...
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