ReviewBMJ global health2022
Alarming level of severe acute malnutrition in Indian districts.
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- Machine Learning in Predicting Child Malnutrition: A Meta-Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys Data.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Dietary diversity and nutritional status of children enrolled in Anganwadis of Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru Urban District.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors Associated with Child Undernutrition and Growth Failure in Eastern Africa.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Nutritional Status and Its Association with Rotavirus Diarrhea Among Children Aged Under 5 Years in Maharashtra, India.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Nutritional status of under-5 children in Bangalore city during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
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- Provision of under-5 health services in an underprivileged area of Bangalore through urban health centre.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
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- Evaluating the effectiveness of training on malnutrition for Anganwadi workers in Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru Urban District.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- A systematic review and modelling insights of factors impacting measles vaccine effectiveness, efficacy and immunogenicity.Discover viruses · 2025Review
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- Decoding India's Child Malnutrition Puzzle: A Multivariable Analysis Using a Composite Index.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Secular trends and sociodemographic determinants of thinness, overweight and obesity among Chinese children and adolescents aged 7-18 years from 2010 to 2018.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Over the last two decades, severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been increasing in India despite favourable national-level economic growth. The latest round of the National Family Health Survey 5 (NFHS-5) results was released, allowing us to assess changes in the malnutrition trends. Analysis of the previous rounds of the NFHS (NFHS-4) has already shown disturbing levels of wasting, often co-occurring with other forms of anthropometric failures. These have been shown to occur in clusters of districts across India that already needed urgent policy and programmatic action. A rapid assessment of data from NFHS-5 for some of these districts for which data are now available shows an alarming increase in SAM in several malnutrition hotspot districts. Surprisingly, some districts outside hotspots and in states and regions that have previously not been known for high malnutrition too have shown increasing SAM prevalence in the latest round. The data from NFHS-5 was collected just before the COVID-19 pandemic and hence does not yet reflect the likely impact of the pandemic on food security, livelihoods and other social stressors among the most marginalised Indian households. Based on this emerging pattern of increasing SAM, we call for an urgent policy and programmatic action to strengthen the Anganwadi system, which caters to preschool children in India and community-based management of acute malnutrition based on recent evidence on their effectiveness.
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