Which state has the highest malnutrition in India? why?

  Which state has the highest malnutrition in India? why?

 

 Assam, Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh are the most malnourished states in India:  research 

Malnutrition is still the underlying risk factor for 68 percent of the deaths among children  under the age of 5

A study, published by Lancet Child & Adoloscent Health, stated that Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar and Assam have the highest malnutrition levels in the country, in spite of the  real drop in  ill health   load and death rate.

 ill health  loade and death rate are  traceable to poor nutritional intake.

The  research completely estimated the   ill health  loade,

due to child and maternal malnutrition, in every Indian state from 1990 by the India State-Level  ill health  loade  capability . This is a consortium of experts and stakeholders associated with over 100 Indian institutions, including the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Public Health Foundation of India and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent global health research centre at the University of Washington

Among the malnutrition  measure , low birth weight is the biggest  giver to  ill  health load  followed by child growth failure which includes stunting, underweight and wasting. The  currency of malnutrition indicators and their rates of  development vary  considerably between different Indian states. The performance of different states was measured using disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) per 100,000 lost due to child and maternal malnutrition

What does the study show

The study showed that the  ill health  loade rate,  impute to malnutrition in children, varies seven-fold between the states. States like Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and Assam top the list while Kerala and Tamil Nadu have the lowest  ill health  loade .

While the four worst-performing states have Dally of more than 60,000, Madhya Pradesh (MP), Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Nagaland and Tripura too figure among the second set of poor-performing states that have DALYs between 50,000 and 59,999, the  buyout study said.

“The  searching reported in the paper highlight that there are wide  differently in the malnutrition status between the States. It is important  thus to plan the depletion in malnutrition in a manner that is suitable for the  movement and context of each State,” said Balram Bhargava, ICMR Director General.

“The study  disclose that while it is important to address the gaps in all malnutrition indicators, low birth weight needs particular policy attention in India as it is the biggest contributor to child death among all malnutrition indications and its rate of decline is among the lowest. Another important  disclose is that overweight among a subset of children is becoming a  impotent public health problem as it is increasing rapidly across all states of India,” said Lalit Dandona, who heads the consortium.

The death rate attributable to malnutrition among children, below five-years-old, in India has dropped by two-thirds from 1990 to 2017. Malnutrition is, however, still the underlying risk factor for 68 per cent of the deaths among these children. It is also the leading risk factor for disease burden in persons of all ages considered together, contributing 17 per cent of the total DALYs.

 occurrence of low birth weight

The currency of low birth weight was 21 per cent in India in 2017, ranging from 9 per cent in Mizoram to 24 per cent in UP. The annual rate of reduction was 1.1 per cent in India between 1990 and 2017, ranging from 3.8 per cent in Sikkim to 0.3 per cent in Delhi.

 occurrence of child stunting

 occurrence of stunting among children was 39 per cent in India in 2017. This ranged from 21 per cent in Goa to 49 per cent in UP, and was  commonly the highest among socio-economically backward states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Rajasthan, MP and UP.

The annual rate of  lower was 2.6 per cent in India between 1990 and 2017, which  different from 4 per cent in Kerala to 1.2 per cent in Meghalaya.

 occurrence of children being underweight

In 2017, 33 per cent of the children in India were reportedly underweight, ranging from 16 per cent in Manipur to 42 per cent in Jharkhand. The annual rate of reduction was 3.2 per cent in India between 1990 and 2017, ranging from 5.4 per cent in Meghalaya to 1.8 per cent in Delhi.

Anaemia among children

The  occurrence of anaemia among children, on other other hand, was 60 per cent in India in 2017, ranging from 21 per cent in Mizoram to 74 per cent in Haryana. The annual rate of  lower was 1.8 per cent in India between 1990 and 2017, which  different from 8.3 per cent in Mizoram to no  notable lower in Goa.