Framework for enhancing maternal nutrition: addressing under nutrition in tribal children inhabiting Central India

Maternal nutrition.

Nutrition transition in India.

OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this review is to examine the demographic and nutrition transition in India in relation to its contribution to the emerging epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases in this country. SETTING India, the country as a whole and its different states with a population exceeding 1 billion in 2001. SUBJECTS The review examines demographic changes in the popul...

Child Nutrition in India

Malnutrition plagues a disproportionately large number of children in India compared with most other countries. National-level data on child malnutrition in India have, however, been scarce. Recognizing this gap, India’s 1992–93 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) collected anthropometric data on the height and weight of children below four years of age. The NFHS is based on a large, nationall...

Nutrition in India

Addressing child under nutrition: can traditional practices offer a solution?

Child under nutrition continues to be a challenge to global development, especially in resource-poor contexts. In the multifaceted attempts to address this challenge, popular traditional practices, although closely linked to infant health, remain neglected and less researched. The World Health Organization's recent strategy on traditional medicine systems provides overarching guidance in this r...