A Case for Action: India's National Family Health Survey Datasets Await Exploration of Big Data Applications Toward Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making to Tackle Malnutrition

Affiliations

¹ Department of Interdisciplinary Research, Foundation for Diffusion of Innovations, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
² Center of Research for Development, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
³ Department of Community Medicine, Parul Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
⁴ Department of Computer Science Engineering, Parul Institute of Technology, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
⁵ Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

Kandarp Narendra Talati et al. Indian J Community Med. 2022 Jan-Mar.

. 2022 Jan-Mar;47(1):151-152.

doi: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_698_21. Epub 2022 Mar 16.

¹ Department of Interdisciplinary Research, Foundation for Diffusion of Innovations, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
² Center of Research for Development, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
³ Department of Community Medicine, Parul Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
⁴ Department of Computer Science Engineering, Parul Institute of Technology, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
⁵ Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

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