Undernutrition among adults in India: the significance of individual-level and contextual factors impacting on the likelihood of underweight across sub-populations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the extent to which individual-level as well as macro-level contextual factors influence the likelihood of underweight across adult sub-populations in India.

Design

Population-based cross-sectional survey included in India's National Health Family Survey conducted in 2005-06. We disaggregated into eight sub-populations.

Setting

Multistage nationally representative household survey covering 99 % of India's population.

Subjects

The survey covered 124 385 females aged 15-49 years and 74 369 males aged 15-54 years.

Results

A social gradient in underweight exists in India. Even after allowing for wealth status, differences in the predicted probability of underweight persisted based upon rurality, age/maturity and gender. We found indi

SUBMITTER: Siddiqui MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261381 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature