Adequate nutrition, access to healthcare, opportunities for early learning and responsive caregiving significantly contribute towards children attaining their full human potential as recognized by Gov...
There is a strong and direct relationship between undernutrition and the disease caused by infectious organisms. It is a vicious cycle where malnutrition makes a person more susceptible to infection, ...
Improving nutrition for women and children remains a high public health priority in India. Women's groups are becoming important in delivering health and nutrition interventions while continuing to ad...
Undernutrition among children less than 5 years is a key factor for child morbidity and mortality. In India, severe wasting, is seen in 8 per cent of children under the age of 5 years. (NFHS-5, 2019-2...
Ensuring women have nutritious diets, adequate services and care are fundamental for the survival and well-being of mothers and their children. Pregnancy is one of the most critical phases in a woman’...
The lists of indicators within this spreadsheet have been developed as part of a broader menu of social and behaviour change (SBC) indicators for different UNICEF sectors and crosscutting programme ar...
Objective: We carried out a secondary analysis of data of Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016-18 to analyze the prevalence and predictors of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) among Indian children a...
A set of global nutrition targets for maternal and child nutrition together with diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to be achieved by 2025 was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2013....
Healthy diets are necessary for optimal growth and to carry out daily mental and physical tasks. Unhealthy diets drive all forms of malnutrition and dietary risks are the number one risk factor global...