Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
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Whichever way you look at it India has worst malnutrition than sub-saharan Africa.
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
^^ and more kids die at birth in pakistan then in india....
infant mortality rate in India ---- 54.63 deaths/1,000 live births
infant mortality rate in Pakistan--70.45 deaths/1,000 live births
Source: World Factbook
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
welcome to GS melbguy........ It will be great if you are one of research kinds and keep pasting some research just to keep SILLY threads sane........... :-)
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
India makes up 1/6th of the world population, but 1/3rd of it’s children are malnourished.
Malnutrition is more common in India than in Sub-Saharan Africa. One in every three malnourished children in the world lives in India. Malnutrition limits development and the capacity to learn. It also costs lives: about 50 per cent of all childhood deaths are attributed to malnutrition. In India, around 46 per cent of all children below the age of three are too small for their age, 47 per cent are underweight and at least 16 per cent are wasted. Many of these children are severely malnourished. The prevalence of malnutrition varies across states, with Madhya Pradesh recording the highest rate (55 per cent) and Kerala among the lowest (27 per cent). Malnutrition in children is not affected by food intake alone; it is also influenced by access to health services, quality of care for the child and pregnant mother as well as good hygiene practices. Girls are more at risk of malnutrition than boys because of their lower social status.
Malnutrition in early childhood has serious, long-term consequences because it impedes motor, sensory, cognitive, social and emotional development. Malnourished children are less likely to perform well in school and more likely to grow into malnourished adults, at greater risk of disease and early death. Around one-third of all adult women are underweight. Inadequate care of women and girls, especially during pregnancy, results in low- birthweight babies. Nearly 30 per cent of all newborns have a low birthweight, making them vulnerable to further malnutrition and disease. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies also affect children’s survival and development. Anaemia affects 74 per cent of children under the age of three, more than 90 per cent of adolescent girls and 50 per cent of women. Iodine deficiency, which reduces learning capacity by up to 13 per cent, is widespread because fewer than half of all households use iodised salt. Vitamin A deficiency, which causes blindness and increases morbidity and mortality among pre-schoolers, also remains a public-health problem.
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
Another cut and paste of anti India article....... he is assured that India is worst place in the world to live...... he wants us who are living here to believe in it....... :-)..
how do we beliver it....... ??? Can somebody help SILLY out......
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
Every country has problems and India is no exception. Accepting the problem is first step towards the solution.
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Problem is accepted, though that doesn't stop SILLY... he goes silly in keep pasting the problem....
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you should be happy that he's posting the articles, so that you can accept it and move on. so every time he post anti-india article, you should say thank you.
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
Accepting that there is a problem is part of the story doing something to rectify is another. Just to give you a high level on how indians became so successfull at acknowledging and then fixing their problems… When the Brits left they left every thing in India from infrastructure to a functioning govt. you name it… In 1948 India was ranked 17 on UNDP index and I am sure you know where it stands today.. The trend reflects the progress…
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
Accepting that there is a problem is the first step to rectifying it.
There are problems and we are dealing with them. There is no magic that can be done. It is a time taking process and I am certain we are moving in the right direction.
CIA World fact book
"The economy has posted an average growth rate of more than 7% in the decade since 1994, reducing poverty by about 10 percentage points. India achieved 7.6% GDP growth in 2005, significantly expanding manufacturing."
I think it is best that you go and deal with your problems. Or you don't have any? BTW you can also read about Pakistan on the "CIA World fact book".
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
I think we should talk about pakistan now....
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
Start with the very basics that is minimum requirements to sustain life.
1) Water (also include roti)
2) Kaprra
3) makaan
See where you stand as of right now.. Rest comes latter.
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
The article I posted is from UNICEF, who are an international UN agency, and if India's think they are anti-Indian, then they are unable to accept the huge problem of malnutrition and poverty in their country.
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
Who says India doesn't have a problem of Poverty..... and who doesn't accept it.... elections are won on this here buddy...
Its just that you seem to be pushing it on us......
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
Malnutrition Crisis On Rise In India: World Bank
Re: Malnutrition: India beats sub-Saharan Africa
As I have stated India needs to learn from Africa as they have done far better in tackling malnutrition.
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/10/nat5.htm
Sub-Saharan nations fair better than Pakistan: Malnutrition
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, March 9: Pakistan has a higher prevalence of under-nutrition than certain countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and is unlikely to achieve Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of under-weight by 2015.
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http://www.dawn.com/2005/04/02/nat8.htm
Pakistan ranks 8th in child mortality
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, April 1: Pakistan ranks eighth in the world in the number of child deaths, as 565,000 children under the age of five die every year, while one mother dies after every 20 minutes. This information was shared by Dr Zulfikar A Bhutta of Aga Khan University at the opening session of the National Public Health forum on “Maternal and Child Health” at a local hotel on Friday.
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http://www.dawn.com/2003/07/05/local38.htm
PESHAWAR: ‘Maternal mortality rate high’
By Our Correspondent
PESHAWAR, July 4: Some 1,800 women out of 100,000 die of delivery or pregnancy-related complications in remote areas of the province because of poor health-care facilities, officials said.
They said the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) had been alarmingly high in remote districts such as Shangla, Buner, Upper Dir and Lower Dir and Fata due to non-availability of trained attendants.
Increasing unhygienic conditions, unsafe delivery practices, inability of traditional birth attendants to detect high-risk pregnancies and failure of the local attendants to refer cases to tehsil and district headquarters hospitals are said to be main reasons for the high MMR.
Even in urban areas of the province, the MMR, according to officials, is 450 per 100,000 births
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http://www.dawn.com/2005/09/08/top5.htm
Pakistan ranks 135th in human development
By Masood Haider
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 7: Among the 177 countries covered by the annual UN Human Development Report, **Pakistan ranks at 135 while India ranks 127th **and Bangladesh 139th.
How does it feel to be worse than India in every category?