Socio-economic inequality in malnutrition among children in India: an analysis of 640 districts from National Family Health Survey (2015–16)

Abstract Background Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. Despite India’s 50% increase in GDP since 1991, more than one third of the world’s malnourished children live in India. Among these, half of the ch...

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Main Authors: Shrikant Singh, Swati Srivastava, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1093-0