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Re-Estimating Malnourishment and Inequality among Children in North-east India -Moatula Ao and Hemkhothang Lhungdim

-Economic and Political Weekly


This article re-estimates the prevalence of child malnutrition among the under-five age group in eight north-east states using the composite index of anthropometric failure method as proposed by P Svedberg, using the National Family Health Survey-3 data. These data show that in the north-east only about 35% of children under-five are underweight. However, results using the CIAF method indicate a substantially higher malnutrition level of 56%, and evidence of wide interstate differentials by socio-economic and demographic indicators.

Moatula Ao (mjamir25@yahoo.com) and Hemkhothang Lhungdim (lhungdim.hem@iips.net) are at the Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. Hemkhothang Lhungdim is also one of the coordinators of National Family Health Survey-3.

The earlier version of the paper was presented at the Tenth National Conference of the Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health (21-23 November 2012), at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The authors thank M Guruswamy and Abhishek Singh at IIPS, Mumbai, for their valuable comments on the draft. However, the authors are solely responsible for the interpretations or any error in the analysis.

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