Socio-economic inequality in anthropometric failure among children aged under 5 years in India: evidence from the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016-18.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Conventional indicators used to access the nutritional status of children tend to underestimate the overall undernutrition in the presence of multiple anthropometric failures. Further, factors contributing to the rich-poor gap in the composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) have not been explored. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of CIAF and quantify the contribution of factors that explain the rich-poor gap in CIAF.

Methods

The present study used data of 38,060 children under the age of five years and their biological mothers, drawn from the nationally representative Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey of children and adolescents aged 0-19 years in India. The CIAF outcome variable in this study provide an overall prevalence of undernutrition

SUBMITTER: Porwal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8325297 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature