Can the Gap between Infant and Child Mortality be explained by Malnutrition Prevalence in India?

Surajit Deb

No 333212, Conference papers from Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project

Abstract: Some recent findings indicate malnutrition as the major determinant of death burden among children in India. Although the association between malnutrition and mortality is well established for children below 4 or 5 years of age, exploration of the relation specific to infant or children’s age group have remained limited. This issue is crucial considering the wide gaps that are observed between the infant and child mortality rates as well as the disparities between malnutrition prevalence at the relevant age groups of less than 12 months and 12 to 48 months. We consider the National Family Health Survey (2015-16) data from 29 states of India and examine the extent to which the malnutrition burden diverges across age groups and also attempt to link this with the gap between infant and child mortality rates across different states. Our results indicated greater correlation between death burden and malnutrition for the children’s age in comparison to the infant age. As regards the burden of infant mortalities, the regression analyses revealed the role of other determinants, viz., women illiteracy, vaccinations, breastfeeding, dietary diversity or per capita income levels across states in India. Watch the recorded version of this presentation

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/333212/files/9665.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:pugtwp:333212

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Conference papers from Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().