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Persisting Undernutrition in India: Causes, Consequences and Possible Solutions

Persisting Undernutrition in India: Causes, Consequences and Possible Solutions

Ramachandran, Nira

Hardcover

EconomicsMedical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 8132218310
ISBN13: 9788132218319
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 5 2014
Pages: 241
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The book revisits the causes of persisting under nutrition in India, but moves away from the usual focus on women and children to a broader view of the entire population. It estimates the economic losses resulting from ignoring under nutrition in the adult working population and questions the current narrow focus of nutrition interventions, suggesting that a family-based approach may provide quicker results and long-term sustainability. It compares the best and worst performing states in the country to glean learnings from both successes and failures and emphasizes the need to hand over the ownership of nutrition outcomes from the state to the community and family for more sustainable results. The book is organized in three sections: Part 1 details the nutrition status of the population, regional variations in nutrition outcomes and government response in terms of interventions. Part 2 reviews issues and concerns like gender discrimination, poor child nutrition status, ineffective implementation of government programmes in the field and the possible impacts of emerging issues like climate change. Part 3 seeks solutions from both international and country experiences.

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