The Effect of Socio-Economic & Demographic Determinants on Children's Solid Food-Intake in India: A Study Based on NFHS-4

Supplemental Food ◽

Female Children ◽

Survey Round ◽

As nutrition is very critical and its access helps in the improvement of health and creates overall development, it is very vital for the children at their initial stages. In these period of rapid growth, India is still witnessing a huge discrimination regarding the children's solid food intake.<div>This paper seeks to find out the extent of these supplemental food inequality among children aged 6 to 59 months of age using the National Family Health Survey, round 4 data.</div><div>The results are very much evident to show the inequality among female children, along with discontinued breastfeeding. </div>

Spatial Pattern of Maternal Health in Northeastern States, India-evidence from national family health survey 4 (2015-16)

Asian Pacific Journal of Health Sciences ◽

10.21276/apjhs.2017.4.2.25 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 147-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kh. Jitenkumar Singh ◽

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Swati Kadian ◽

Amandeep Kaur ◽

Kiran Saini ◽

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Keyword(s):

Maternal Health ◽

Spatial Pattern ◽

Health Survey ◽

Family Health ◽

Inequalities in utilisation of maternal health services in urban India: Evidences from national family health survey-4

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health ◽

10.1016/j.cegh.2020.11.005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 100672

Author(s):

Balhasan Ali ◽

Paramita Debnath ◽

Tarique Anwar

Keyword(s):

Maternal Health ◽

Health Services ◽

Health Survey ◽

Family Health ◽

Maternal Health Services ◽

Urban India ◽

Missed opportunities for delivering nutrition interventions in first 1000 days of life in India: insights from the National Family Health Survey, 2006 and 2016

BMJ Global Health ◽

10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003717 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. e003717

Author(s):

Phuong Hong Nguyen ◽

Rasmi Avula ◽

Lan Mai Tran ◽

Vani Sethi ◽

Alok Kumar ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Survey ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Family Health ◽

Universal Coverage ◽

Nutrition Interventions ◽

Missed Opportunities ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

National Family ◽

Opportunity Gaps

ObjectivesExisting health and community nutrition systems have the potential to deliver many nutrition interventions. However, the coverage of nutrition interventions across the delivery platforms of these systems has not been uniform. We (1) examined the opportunity gaps between delivery platforms and corresponding nutrition interventions through the continuum of care in India between 2006 and 2016 and and (2) assessed inequalities in these opportunity gaps.MethodsWe used two rounds of the National Family Health Survey data from 2005 to 2006 and 2015–2016 (n=36 850 and 190 898 mother–child dyads, respectively). We examine the opportunity gaps over time for seven nutrition interventions and their associated delivery platforms at national and state levels. We assessed equality and changes in equality between 2006 and 2016 for opportunity gaps by education, residence, socioeconomic status (SES), public and private platforms.ResultsCoverage of nutrition interventions was consistently lower than the reach of their associated delivery platforms; opportunity gaps ranging from 9 to 32 percentage points (pp) during the pregnancy, 17 pp during delivery and 9–26 pp during childhood in 2006. Between 2006 and 2016, coverage improved for most indicators, but coverage increases for nutrition interventions was lower than for associated delivery platforms. The opportunity gaps were larger among women with higher education (22–57 pp in 2016), higher SES status and living in urban areas (23–57 pp), despite higher coverage of most interventions and the delivery platforms among these groups. Opportunity gaps vary tremendously by state with the highest gaps observed in Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar islands, and Punjab for different indicators.ConclusionsIndia’s progress in coverage of health and nutrition interventions in the last decade is promising, but both opportunity and equality gaps remained. It is critical to close these gaps by addressing policy and programmatic delivery systems bottlenecks to achieve universal coverage for both health and nutrition within the delivery system.

Correction to: Inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health Care in Rural India: Evidences from National Family Health Survey III & IV

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-021-10799-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Balhasan Ali ◽

Shekhar Chauhan

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Maternal Health ◽

Health Survey ◽

Family Health ◽

Maternal Health Care ◽

Rural India ◽

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

BIRTH ORDER, STAGE OF INFANCY AND INFANT MORTALITY IN INDIA

Journal of Biosocial Science ◽

10.1017/s0021932017000487 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 50 (5) ◽

pp. 604-625 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

S. K. Mishra ◽

Bali Ram ◽

Abhishek Singh ◽

Awdhesh Yadav

Keyword(s):

Infant Mortality ◽

Birth Order ◽

Neonatal Period ◽

Family Health ◽

Female Children ◽

National Family ◽

Urban Rural ◽

Using Data ◽

The Relationship

SummaryUsing data from India’s National Family Health Survey, 2005–06 (NFHS-3), this article examines the patterns of relationship between birth order and infant mortality. The analysis controls for a number of variables, including mother’s characteristics such as age at the time of survey, current place of residence (urban/rural), years of schooling, religion, caste, and child’s sex and birth weight. A modest J-shaped relationship between birth order of children and their risk of dying in the neonatal period is found, suggesting that although both first- and last-born children are at a significantly greater risk of dying compared with those in the middle, last-borns (i.e. fourth and higher order births) are at the worst risk. However, in the post-neonatal period first-borns are not as vulnerable, but the risk increases steadily with the addition of successive births and last-borns are at much greater risk, even worse than those in the neonatal period. Although the strength of relationship between birth order and mortality is attenuated after the potential confounders are taken into account, the relationship between the two variables remains curvilinear in the neonatal period and direct in the post-neonatal period. There are marked differences in these patterns by the child’s sex. While female children are less prone to the risk of dying in the neonatal period in comparison with male children, the converse is true in the post-neonatal period. Female children not only run higher risks of dying in the post-neonatal period, but also become progressively more vulnerable with an increase in birth order.

Severe wasting among Indian infants <6 months: Findings from the National Family Health Survey 4

Maternal and Child Nutrition ◽

10.1111/mcn.12866 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tarun Shankar Choudhary ◽

Akanksha Srivastava ◽

Ranadip Chowdhury ◽

Sunita Taneja ◽

Rajiv Bahl ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Survey ◽

Family Health ◽

Determinants of suboptimal breastfeeding in Haryana – An analysis of national family health survey-4 data

Indian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.4103/ijph.ijph_406_19 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (3) ◽

pp. 285

Author(s):

Jyoti Sharma ◽

Shivam Pandey ◽

Preeti Negandhi

Keyword(s):

Health Survey ◽

Family Health ◽

National Family ◽

Suboptimal Breastfeeding

Anemia Prevalence in India Over Two Decades: Evidence from National Family Health Survey (NFHS)

International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research ◽

10.52403/ijshr.20211046 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 335-340

Author(s):

Ekta Belwal ◽

Shalini Pandey ◽

Supta Sarkar

Keyword(s):

Iron Deficiency ◽

Health Survey ◽

Family Health ◽

Preschool Age ◽

Reproductive Age ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Quality Data ◽

Family Welfare ◽

Anemia is the most prevalent deficiency disease and one among the major nutrition related goals globally. Children and women of reproductive age are the most vulnerable groups for anemia everywhere. While there are various nutritional and non-nutritional factors causing anemia, Iron deficiency is the most prominent of them. In India, more than half population of preschool age children and reproductive age women is suffering from anemia. Indian government had started anemia prophylaxis efforts a half century ago and still continuing to battle with this ever prevalent disease to bring down its occurrence. National Family Health Survey is the large-scale survey conducted in India to provide high-quality data on health and family welfare and related emerging issues. The data provided not only helps in formulation, revision and monitoring of the policies and programs but in situating the development of India globally. Studying the time trend for anemia prevalence and other related parameters reported in NFHS surveys helps how well India has performed until now and how far is from its goal to become Anemia free country. Keywords: Anemia, iron deficiency, health survey, child health, maternal health.