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

ABSTRACT: 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 20

SUBMITTER: Alderman H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6880331 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature