{"id":34529,"date":"2018-10-31T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T06:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34529"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T06:10:55","slug":"what-schools-have-to-do-with-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-schools-have-to-do-with-health\/","title":{"rendered":"What schools have to do with health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/global-hunger-index-india-child-mortality-poverty-what-schools-have-to-do-with-health-4897121\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What schools have to do with health <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malnutrition in India and its solution<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s under three-year-old child malnutrition rate was double the poverty rate and 20 times the percentage of the hungry in India (percentage of households in which any member had less than two full meals, on any day of the month, that is, even one day without two square meals counts as hungry).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The broad aspects of malnutrition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that must be kept in mind when devising strategies for dealing with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b> The ability to access food items<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This depends on household income or the ability to sustain certain levels of consumption. The rate of poverty (headcount ratio) is the standard indicator.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>household\/family knowledge and information about good nutrition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This includes knowledge about locally available foods that are good from the nutrition perspective. ability to read coupled with the availability of appropriate reading material on nutrition; access to media such as newspapers, radio and TV, coupled with propagation of such information on radio and finally, special programmes like the ICDS that directly educate mothers about child rearing and nutrition.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>the state of health<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even if the right kind of food and nutrition is available, a child may not be able to consume and\/or absorb it properly due to ill health or sickness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Poverty <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affects cross-state differences in child malnutrition<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has to be addressed through economic growth, reform of welfare programmes etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average per capita GDP is an important determinant of poverty. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The consumption share of the bottom 40 per cent of the population is an important determinant of poverty.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Solution <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social welfare benefits from direct intervention by the government to improve the lot of the bottom 40 per cent can come if it focuses on two long-neglected quasi-public goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public health including communicable disease and vector control, quality drinking water, drainage, sewerage and solid waste disposal in every city, town and village in the country. <\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Indian environment, access to water and toilets, breastfeeding (to impart immunity in an unhealthy environment), access to sound health advice\/treatment, the prevalence of vaccination and availability of vitamin supplements are possible indicators.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universal primary education and literacy to a global standard that is visible in learning outcomes.<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Literacy can help in acquiring knowledge about hygiene, nutrition and sanitation. The government must ensure that every citizen has the education that she is supposed to acquire with the completion of primary education.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Example <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ICDS programme seems to have helped in providing public health education to mothers and thus contributed to the outcome. The policy implications, however, extend beyond nutrition to other health outcomes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improvements in environmental sanitation could have a significant impact in reducing malnutrition in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The importance of primary education, particularly of females, in helping spread information and knowledge about personal hygiene, sanitation and nutrition. Much more could, however, be done through appropriate school curricula and media campaigns to promote public health education.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What schools have to do with health Context Malnutrition in India and its solution India\u2019s under three-year-old child malnutrition rate was double the poverty rate and 20 times the percentage of the hungry in India (percentage of households in which any member had less than two full meals, on any day of the month, that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-schools-have-to-do-with-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What schools have to do with health<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704711962},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}