Tag: Child malnutrition

A new study titled ‘Social, biological and programmatic factors link adolescent pregnancy to early childhood under nutrition: a path analysis of India’s 2016 National Family Health Survey’ by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has for the first time comprehensively shown the correlation between teenage pregnancy and child under nutrition in India. The study… Continue reading Teenage pregnancies increase chance of child malnutrition by 10 per cent: Study