Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool

The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been used to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality. Evidence for the model is largely based on efficacy trials, raising concerns of applicability to large-scale contexts. We modelled the impact of scaling up health pro...

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Autores principales: Alderman, Harold, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Menon, Purnima
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145616
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author Alderman, Harold
Nguyen, Phuong Hong
Menon, Purnima
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description The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been used to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality. Evidence for the model is largely based on efficacy trials, raising concerns of applicability to large-scale contexts. We modelled the impact of scaling up health programs in India between 2006 and 2016 and compared estimates to observed changes. Demographics, intervention coverage and nutritional status were obtained from National Family and Health Survey 2005–6 (NFHS-3) for the base year and NHFS-4 2015–16 for the endline. We used the LiST to estimate the impact of changes in coverage of interventions over this decade on child mortality and undernutrition at national and subnational levels and calculated the gap between estimated and observed changes in 2016. At the national level, the LiST estimates are close to the actual values of mortality for children <1 year and <5 years in 2016 (at 41 vs 42.6 and 50 vs 56.4, respectively, per 1000 live births). National estimates for stunting, wasting and anaemia at are also close to the actual values of NFHS-4. At the state level, actual changes were higher than the changes from the LiST projections for both mortality and stunting. The predicted changes using the LiST ranged from 33% to 92% of the actual change. The LiST provided national projections close to, albeit slightly below, actual performance over a decade. Reasons for poorer performance of state-specific projections are unknown; further refinements to the LiST for subnational use would improve the usefulness of the tool.
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spelling CGSpace1456162025-04-03T21:29:16Z Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool Alderman, Harold Nguyen, Phuong Hong Menon, Purnima anaemia child nutrition stunting malnutrition nutrition children mortality The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been used to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality. Evidence for the model is largely based on efficacy trials, raising concerns of applicability to large-scale contexts. We modelled the impact of scaling up health programs in India between 2006 and 2016 and compared estimates to observed changes. Demographics, intervention coverage and nutritional status were obtained from National Family and Health Survey 2005–6 (NFHS-3) for the base year and NHFS-4 2015–16 for the endline. We used the LiST to estimate the impact of changes in coverage of interventions over this decade on child mortality and undernutrition at national and subnational levels and calculated the gap between estimated and observed changes in 2016. At the national level, the LiST estimates are close to the actual values of mortality for children <1 year and <5 years in 2016 (at 41 vs 42.6 and 50 vs 56.4, respectively, per 1000 live births). National estimates for stunting, wasting and anaemia at are also close to the actual values of NFHS-4. At the state level, actual changes were higher than the changes from the LiST projections for both mortality and stunting. The predicted changes using the LiST ranged from 33% to 92% of the actual change. The LiST provided national projections close to, albeit slightly below, actual performance over a decade. Reasons for poorer performance of state-specific projections are unknown; further refinements to the LiST for subnational use would improve the usefulness of the tool. 2019-09-30 2024-06-21T09:04:44Z 2024-06-21T09:04:44Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145616 en Open Access Oxford University Press Alderman, Harold; Nguyen, Phuong Hong; and Menon, Purnima. 2019. Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool. Health Policy and Planning 34(9): 667-675. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz088
spellingShingle anaemia
child nutrition
stunting
malnutrition
nutrition
children
mortality
Alderman, Harold
Nguyen, Phuong Hong
Menon, Purnima
Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool
title Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool
title_full Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool
title_fullStr Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool
title_full_unstemmed Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool
title_short Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: An application of the Lives Saved Tool
title_sort progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in india an application of the lives saved tool
topic anaemia
child nutrition
stunting
malnutrition
nutrition
children
mortality
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145616
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