Tipping the scale: the role of a national nutritional supplementation programme for pregnant mothers in reducing low birth weight and neonatal mortality in India.

ABSTRACT: With over 1·3 million Anganwadi centres (AWC) (meaning 'courtyard shelter'), the Indian government runs a nationwide intervention providing nutrition supplement to pregnant mothers to improve the health of their children. Using two successive rounds of the nationally representative cross-sectional National Family Health Survey data (collected during 2005-2006 and 2015-2016) of India, we assessed whether nutrition supplements given to pregnant mothers through AWC were associated with select child health indicators - extremely low birth weight (ELBW), very low birth weight (VLBW), low birth weight (LBW) and neonatal mortality (death during day 0-27) stratified by death during day 0-1, day 2-6 and day 7-27. A total of 148 019 children and 205 593 children were eligible for analysing birth wei

SUBMITTER: Rai RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8756072 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature