Open AccessComposite indexing for nutritional status evaluation: A snapshot of malnutrition across India
Author(s) -
Neeraj Agarwal,
Neha Chaudhary,
Pankaj Pathak,
Avneet Randhawa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_387_19
Subject(s) - malnutrition , functional illiteracy , composite index , sanitation , environmental health , geography , index (typography) , composite indicator , uttar pradesh , socioeconomics , medicine , mathematics , economic growth , political science , economics , computer science , econometrics , pathology , world wide web , law
Data from several sources revealed that huge incongruity persists in nutritional status across the states in India. Thus, this study was undertaken to generate a nutritional index, so that these disparities could be quantified and comparison be done.