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Prevalence of anaemia sees little change over 10 years, shows survey -Neetu Chandra Sharma

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Prevalence of anaemia among women has seen little improvement in 10 years, witnessing a rather small decline from 55% in 2005-06 to 53% in 2015-16, the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) said

The prevalence of anaemia among Indian women has seen little improvement in 10 years, witnessing a rather small decline from 55% in 2005-06 to 53% in 2015-16, a detailed version of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) released this month by the ministry of health and family welfare said.

The statistics for men are no better, with 23% men in the age group of 15 to 49 being anaemic in 2015-16, compared with 24% in 2005-06.

According to the survey, about 40% of women are mildly anaemic, 12% are moderately anaemic, and 1% are severely anaemic.

Among men, 12% are classified as mildly anaemic, 10% moderately anaemic, and 1% severely anaemic.

“The overall prevalence of anaemia is consistently high, at more than 50%, in almost all of the subgroups of women. For men, the prevalence is above 20% in most of the subgroups. Anaemia also varies by maternity status—58% of women who are breastfeeding are anaemic, compared with 50% of women who are pregnant and 52% who are neither pregnant nor breastfeeding,” the survey said.

The prevalence of anaemia decreases with schooling from 56% among women with no schooling to 49% among women with 12 or more years of schooling.

Across the same levels of schooling, the prevalence of anaemia among men decreases from 29% to 18%.

“The proportion of anaemic women and men declines steadily as the wealth of the household increases, from 59% in the lowest wealth quintile to 48% in the highest wealth quintile among women and from 32% in the lowest wealth quintile to 17% in the highest wealth quintile among men,” the survey said.

“Women in urban areas are slightly less likely to be anaemic (51%) than those in rural areas (54%). The difference is larger for the prevalence of anaemia in men (25% in rural areas versus 18% in urban areas),” it stated.

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