Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Undernutrition among Children in Andhra Pradesh and Strategies for Control

Thumma Manoj Kumar^* and Anuradha K

Department of Home Sciences, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Received Date: Feb 10, 2023 / Accepted Date: May 12, 2023 / Published Date: May 12, 2023

Citation: Kumar TM, Anuradha K (2023) Undernutrition among Children in Andhra Pradesh and Strategies for Control. J Nutr Diet 6: 182.

Copyright: © 2023 Kumar TM, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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India continues to have serious levels of widespread hunger and under nutrition prevailing among under five children in India. India has performing very vulnerable on the global hunger index 2022; India ranked a very low 107th out of the 121 countries. The Indian Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS) published national family health survey NFHS 1-NFHS 5 fact sheets provides selected information on 3 indicators like underweight, stunting, wasting which are related under nutrition, health and nutrition for Andhra Pradesh’s under five children. This paper explores to the major indicators related to nutritional status of under five children in last one decade is making a comparative analysis of all the NFHS 1-5 fact sheets data. This paper is divided in 3 sections and each of them focus on the important indicators of nutritional status of under five children such as underweight, stunting, wasting of urban and rural area’s children. Identify the inconsistencies existing among the good and poor performing levels of urban and rural areas of Andhra Pradesh since 2005 to 2020.

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