Undernutrition Among Infants Through Composite Index of Anthropometric Failures

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Public Health and Nutrition the South Asian and Southeast Asian Landscape

Abstract

Objectives of the Study: This study assesses the burden of undernutrition among infants in India through a single measure “Composite index of anthropometric failure” helps to detect the multiple undernutrition along with the individual conventional three types of undernutrition like underweight, stunted, and wasted and its association with different socio-economic variables. Methods: It is a cross-sectional study. The data has been taken from the fifth national family health (NFHS-5) survey of 2019–21 and the sample size is 32, 875 of 0–11-month-old infants. Undernutrition has been assessed by the status of underweight, stunting and wasting and by CIAF methods from WHO-Z score system. The associated socio-demographic factors are sex of infants, place of residence, mother's education, age and BMI, religion, wealth index of the family and different zones of India. To measure the intensity of association between different socio-demographic variables and undernutrition, multivariate analysis has been done. Results: The study reveals that among infants in India, the prevalence of underweight, stunting, and wasting are 23.4%, 24.3% 23.7%, respectively, and prevalence of total undernutrition through CIAF method is 47.4%. The result shows that the percentage of underweight and stunting are increasing with age whereas the percentage of wasting and CIAF are decreasing with age. The data also shows that CIAF is inversely related with urban place of residence, baby girl, mother's education, age and BMI levels, “Christian and other” religions, wealth index of the family and birthweight of babies.

First Page

51

Last Page

62

DOI

10.1007/978-981-97-7890-4_5

Publication Date

1-1-2024

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