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dc.contributor.authorMenon, Purnimaen
dc.contributor.authorRaabe, Katharinaen
dc.contributor.authorBhaskar, Anjoren
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-27T13:53:49Z
dc.date.available2016-01-27T13:53:49Z
dc.date.issued01/07/2009en
dc.identifier.citationMenon, P., Raabe, K. and Bhaskar, A. (2009) Biological, Programmatic and Sociopolitical Dimensions of Child Undernutrition in Three States in India. IDS Bulletin 40(4): 60-69en
dc.identifier.issn1759-5436en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/8093
dc.description.abstractThe recently developed India State Hunger Index 2008 highlights the continuing sorry state of hunger in India, and shows that children underweight makes the largest contribution to hunger index scores for most of India. In this article, we apply an assessment framework developed by the Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative to understand three dimensions of child undernutrition in India: (1) the biological/epidemiological aspects of the nutrition situation, (2) the programmatic interventions and environment and (3) the sociopolitical environment for nutrition. We conduct this assessment for three states in India, each of which offers a distinct typology: (a) Bihar, an extremely poor northern state with high levels of undernutrition; (b) Karnataka, a southern state with high economic growth, but high child undernutrition rates; (c) Tamil Nadu, a southern state portrayed as an example of successful health and nutrition programming, but with rates of undernutrition that are still very high.en
dc.format.extent10en
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin Vol. 40 Nos. 4en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.titleBiological, Programmatic and Sociopolitical Dimensions of Child Undernutrition in Three States in Indiaen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.rights.holder© 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation © Institute of Development Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00060.xen


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