-Scroll.in Institutions that provide cheap or free meals are not mere populism – they are vital for the food security of people on the margins. My first experience of a “community kitchen” was in Brazil where we were taken to try out a meal at the Popular Restaurant in Lauros de Freitas. The serpentine queue outside it surprising initially, seemed entirely unexceptional once we had been served: for one real (approximately Rs...
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Rural India too battles hypertension -Roli Srivastava & Rukmini S
-The Hindu Obesity and diabetes cases increase in urban areas; experts blame it on stress and faulty diet. Higher stress levels in rural India and faulty diet in cities have thrown up two most disturbing health concerns in the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), the data for which was released on Wednesday. While obesity levels have shot up in the country since the last NFHS survey in 2005-06, the number of people...
More »NFHS-4 Shows Kids and Moms Bit Healthier Now
-The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16, the states of Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and the Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry show promising improvements in maternal and child health and Nutrition. The first phase of the survey covered 13 states and two Union Territories. All the 15 have rates below 51 deaths per 1,000 live births. Infant mortality rates...
More »The case for going universal -Diane Coffey & Payal Hathi
-The Hindu Maternity entitlements are an important policy tool for encouraging better maternal health. This is why we need to do away with conditionality in cash transfer schemes Since the National Food Security Act (NFSA) was passed in 2013, policy circles have been buzzing with talk of reforms in the public distribution system (PDS). Less well appreciated is the NFSA’s potential to call attention to, and help address, poor maternal Nutrition — an aspect...
More »Child stunting declines, but still high, data show -Rukmini S & Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu As of 2005-06, India had 62 million stunted children, accounting for a third of the world’s burden of stunting. Indian states have seen some improvements in child Nutrition over the last decade, the first official data in over a decade shows, but over one in three children is still stunted, and over one in five underweight. As of 2005-6, India had 62 million stunted children, accounting for a third of the...
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