Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India

A baseline survey conducted during 2012 among selected districts with extremely marginalized populations in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha revealed high rates of malnutrition and poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Among 3,489 children surveyed, 60.2 percent were stunte...

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Autores principales: Murugan, Ganapathy, Gope, Rajkumar, Dhingra, Nidhi
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149589
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author Murugan, Ganapathy
Gope, Rajkumar
Dhingra, Nidhi
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description A baseline survey conducted during 2012 among selected districts with extremely marginalized populations in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha revealed high rates of malnutrition and poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Among 3,489 children surveyed, 60.2 percent were stunted, 55.1 percent were underweight, and 24.4 percent were wasted. Only 23.9 percent of the children age 6–36 months received appropriate feeding from diverse food groups (AAM Unpublished).
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spelling CGSpace1495892025-11-06T07:28:19Z Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India Murugan, Ganapathy Gope, Rajkumar Dhingra, Nidhi gender undernutrition nutrition policies malnutrition nutrition children food security capacity building A baseline survey conducted during 2012 among selected districts with extremely marginalized populations in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha revealed high rates of malnutrition and poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Among 3,489 children surveyed, 60.2 percent were stunted, 55.1 percent were underweight, and 24.4 percent were wasted. Only 23.9 percent of the children age 6–36 months received appropriate feeding from diverse food groups (AAM Unpublished). 2015-12-03 2024-08-01T02:49:35Z 2024-08-01T02:49:35Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149589 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Murugan, Ganapathy; Gope, Rajkumar; and Dhingra, Nidhi. 2015. Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India. POSHAN Implementation Note No. 14. New Delhi, India: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149589
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capacity building
Murugan, Ganapathy
Gope, Rajkumar
Dhingra, Nidhi
Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India
title Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India
title_full Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India
title_fullStr Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India
title_full_unstemmed Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India
title_short Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India
title_sort improving complementary feeding through community based management of malnutrition in rural india
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undernutrition
nutrition policies
malnutrition
nutrition
children
food security
capacity building
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