Disparity in childhood stunting in India: Relative importance of community-level nutrition and sanitary practices.

ABSTRACT: Despite rapid macro-economic growth, one-third of the global burden of childhood stunting is contributed by India. This burden is characterized by wide-spread geographical variation within the country. This paper explores two research questions: (i) are the drivers of severe and moderate stunting similar? (ii) differential endowments or policy-effect, how do community-level nutrition and sanitary practices affect inter-state differences? Using data from Indian National Family and Health Survey 4, 2015-16, six states holding different ranks in the stunting continuum are compared to Tamil Nadu, taken as the benchmark state due to its laudable performance in the health care sector. Applying quantile regression approaches, the difference in state-level performance is decomposed into detailed c

SUBMITTER: Banerjee K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462311 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature