What Explains Child Malnutrition of Indigenous People of Northeast India?

Laishram Ladusingh, Manoj Alagarajan and Konsam Dinachandra Singh

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Abstract: Household risk factors affecting child health, particularly malnutrition, are mainly basic amenities like drinking water, toilet facility, housing and fuel used for cooking. This paper considered the collective impact of basic amenities measured by an index specially constructed as the contextual factor of child malnutrition. The contextual factor operates at both the macro and micro levels namely the state level and the household level. The importance of local contextual factors is especially important when studying the nutritional status of children of indigenous people living in remote and inaccessible regions. This study has shown the contextual factors as potential factors of malnutrition among children in northeast India, which is home to the largest number of tribes in the country.

Keywords: Nutrition; Malnutrition; Infrastructure; drinking water; toilet facility; housing and fuel used for cooking; child healthcare; India; Northeast (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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