Improving household-level nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive conditions key to reducing child undernutrition in India

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Electronic address: dcorsi@ohri.ca.
² Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: imejiag@hsph.harvard.edu.
³ Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: svsubram@hsph.harvard.edu.

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Daniel J Corsi et al. Soc Sci Med. 2016 May.

. 2016 May:157:189-92.

doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.02.039. Epub 2016 Mar 3.

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Electronic address: dcorsi@ohri.ca.
² Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: imejiag@hsph.harvard.edu.
³ Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: svsubram@hsph.harvard.edu.

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Keywords: Child undernutrition; Household; India; Policies; RiskFactors; Socioeconomic conditions.

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What does India need to do to address childhood malnutrition at scale?
Bhutta ZA. Bhutta ZA. Soc Sci Med. 2016 May;157:186-8. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.02.038. Epub 2016 Mar 3. Soc Sci Med. 2016. PMID: 27080066 No abstract available.

Risk factors for chronic undernutrition among children in India: Estimating relative importance, population attributable risk and fractions.
Corsi DJ, Mejía-Guevara I, Subramanian SV. Corsi DJ, et al. Soc Sci Med. 2016 May;157:165-85. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.014. Epub 2015 Nov 14. Soc Sci Med. 2016. PMID: 26625852