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Putting food at the centre of India’s nutrition agenda Updated: Updated: December 18, 2020 00:40 IST Reducing the burden of child undernutrition needs a policy goal providing affordable access to quality food items Share Article AAA Reducing the burden of child undernutrition needs a policy goal providing affordable access to quality food items The provisional verdict from the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2019-20 factsheets on the burden of child undernutrition is not encouraging, with few exceptions. For the most part, this assessment has relied on the measure of a child’s anthropometry, i.e., children are defined as stunted, underweight or wasted if their standardised height-for-age, weight-for-age or weight-for-height, respectively, is more than two standard deviations below the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards median.

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