Nutritional Status of Female Children in Comparison to Their Male Siblings in India- A Secondary Analysis of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) Data

• Main Authors: Raghavendra Pandurangi (Author), Usha Rani Telikicherla (Author), Abdul Jaleel CP (Author), Surya Goud CS (Author), Mahesh Kumar M (Author), Raja Sriswan M (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medsci Publications, 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: As there was little literature available about gender disparities in undernutrition within household, this secondary analysis was performed on a large representative data with an objective to evaluate the Z-score differences, viz., Weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ), Height-for-age Z-score (...