Socio-economic inequality in anthropometric failure among children aged under 5 years in India: evidence from the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016-18

• Main Authors: Akash Porwal (Author), Rajib Acharya (Author), Sana Ashraf (Author), Praween Agarwal (Author), Sowmya Ramesh (Author), Nizamuddin Khan (Author), Avina Sarna (Author), Robert Johnston (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Conventional indicators used to access the nutritional status of children tend to underestimate the overall undernutrition in the presence of multiple anthropometric failures. Further, factors contributing to the rich-poor gap in the composite index of anthropometric failure (CIA...