Height-for-Age
Maternal Knowledge and Practices During and Post Pregnancy Period and It’s Relationship with the Nutritional Health of a Peri-Urban Children Population of North 24 Parganas of West Bengal, India
BMIfor-Age, Children, Health Practices, Height-for-Age, India, Low-birth-weight, Malnutrition, Maternal KnowledgeBy: PAUL PABITRA, PAUL SUPARNA, ASHISH MUKHOPADHYAY – One of the important aspects of today’s research in the area of public health is the nutritional health of children populations which has been suffering from decades and now became a burning issue in public health. Scholars worldwide appointed themselves to understand the role of multiple factors…
Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure among Below Five Children of Korba Block, Chhattisgarh, India
CIAF, Height-for-Age, India, nutritional indices, Nutritional Status, weight-for-height, weightfor-ageBy: DHANSAY, A.N. SHARMA, SARVENDRA YADAV – India ranked 101 among 116 countries in Global Hunger Index (GHI) and India is one among the nations where hunger is notified as ‘serious’. Malnutrition is a major social or public issue in developing countries like India also known as “silent emergency”. So, the present study aims to…
Nutritional status of children as indicated by z-scores of the Hmars: a tribe of N.E. India
By: TEMSUTOLA MAKEN, L. ROBERT VARTE – Introduction: In North-East India, many growth studies have been published for the populations of Assam and Meghalaya. However, no study, especially with regard to the nutritional status of the Hmars of Mizoram has been undertaken. So, more growth and nutritional studies are needed to carry out in populations…