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New Delhi: Living in a country like India which is home to one-fifth of the world’s population, we cannot help but worry about the state of health and nutrition in the country. The recent National Nutrition Survey conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare was an eye-opener. It showed that despite economic growth during the last few years in India, 14 per cent of India’s population is undernourished.
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February 23, 2021
Researchers at the Aga Khan University are harnessing the power of stem cells to create mini-intestines that can generate new insights into how malnutrition occurs.
Malnutrition is a major public health problem in the developing world, with four out of ten children under the age of five in Pakistan suffering from stunting while one in three children is underweight, according to the National Nutrition Survey 2018.
An unhygienic environment, contaminated water, inadequate diet and poor maternal health during pregnancy are some of the major factors leading to environmental enteropathy or EE. EE is an important, but poorly understood, intermediary condition, which is characterised by inflammation of the gut, that leads to chronic malnutrition.
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By grouping adolescents with adults, India’s surveys are routinely misestimating their health
One major attempt to correct this has been a one-off. Representational image. | Ahmad Masood/Reuters
India routinely misestimates thinness, overweight and stunting among adolescents because official data sources do not gather sufficient data specifically on adolescents, clubbing them instead with data on adults. This holds true across states, rural-urban residence and wealth groups, a June 2020
study says, showing up data gaps with wide-ranging implications for policy and programme design.
The key
National Family Health Survey does not collect health and nutrition data for school-age children (6-year to 9-year-old) and