TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in rural India
AU - Murugan, Ganapathy
AU - Gope, Rajkumar
AU - Dhingra, Nidhi
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - A baseline survey conducted during 2012 among selected districts with extremely marginalized populations in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha revealed high rates of malnutrition and poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Among 3,489 children surveyed, 60.2 percent were stunted, 55.1 percent were underweight, and 24.4 percent were wasted. Only 23.9 percent of the children age 6–36 months received appropriate feeding from diverse food groups (AAM Unpublished). To address this issue, in 2012, the Action Against Malnutrition (AAM) project was created to attempt to effectively manage child malnutrition at the community level in seven blocks of these states. It targets children from birth to three years and is implemented collaboratively by the Public Health Resource Society, and the nongovernmental organizations Child in Need Institute, Chaupal, Ekjut, and Idea. The project will end in April 2016 and is financially supported by the Jamsetji Tata Trust.
AB - A baseline survey conducted during 2012 among selected districts with extremely marginalized populations in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha revealed high rates of malnutrition and poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Among 3,489 children surveyed, 60.2 percent were stunted, 55.1 percent were underweight, and 24.4 percent were wasted. Only 23.9 percent of the children age 6–36 months received appropriate feeding from diverse food groups (AAM Unpublished). To address this issue, in 2012, the Action Against Malnutrition (AAM) project was created to attempt to effectively manage child malnutrition at the community level in seven blocks of these states. It targets children from birth to three years and is implemented collaboratively by the Public Health Resource Society, and the nongovernmental organizations Child in Need Institute, Chaupal, Ekjut, and Idea. The project will end in April 2016 and is financially supported by the Jamsetji Tata Trust.
KW - malnutrition
KW - infants
KW - India
KW - complementary feeding
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:47527
UR - http://ebrary.ifpri.org/utils/getfile/collection/p15738coll2/id/129838/filename/130049.pdf
M3 - Article
VL - 14
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Poshan Implementation Note
JF - Poshan Implementation Note
ER -