{"id":159473,"date":"2022-01-07T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=159473"},"modified":"2022-01-07T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:44:26","slug":"worrying-trends-in-nutrition-indicators-in-nfhs-5-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worrying-trends-in-nutrition-indicators-in-nfhs-5-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrying trends in nutrition indicators in NFHS-5 data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/span><\/b>: The National Family Health Survey (NFHS)<\/a>-5 data provides certain key data regarding the level of nutrition in the country.<\/p>\n

What are the findings of NFHS on nutrition?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Must read:\u00a0NFHS-5 and its findings \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the challenges associated with the NFHS data?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Read here<\/strong>:\u00a0The nine lives of India\u2019s National Family Health Survey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are suggestions to improve the situation?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

One of the reasons behind slow progress on nutritional indicators is the <\/span>foundational nutritional deficit. <\/span><\/b>The percentage of children below two years receiving an adequate diet is very low. Thus, for a rapid improvement in nutritional indicators, foundational nutrition must be improved. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

India\u2019s nutrition programmes must undergo a periodic review<\/span><\/b>. <\/span>Integrated Child Development Services<\/span><\/a> (ICDS), which is perceived as the guardian of the nation\u2019s nutritional well-being must reassess itself and address critical intervention gaps.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The fertility divide<\/span><\/b> can have several socio-economic and political repercussions. Thus, adequate attention must be given in the policymaking and social levels to this issue. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more:\u00a0Don\u2019t ignore context of NFHS data<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: <\/span><\/b>This post is developed based on the article<\/span> \u201cWorrying trends in nutrition indicators in NFHS-5 data\u201d <\/span><\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express on 7<\/span><\/b>th<\/span><\/b> January 2022. <\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: The National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 data provides certain key data regarding the level of nutrition in the country. What are the findings of NFHS on nutrition? Must read:\u00a0NFHS-5 and its findings \u2013 Explained, pointwise What are the challenges associated with the NFHS data? Read here:\u00a0The nine lives of India\u2019s National Family Health Survey… Continue reading Worrying trends in nutrition indicators in NFHS-5 data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-159473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704922567},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}