Understanding malnutrition in India

Malnutrition is one of the largest factors supressing India's spectacular growth. In a country of lunar missions, billionaires, and nuclear power, a staggering 46% of all India children under 5 years old are still underweight. In India, where everything is on a large scale, malnutrition is daunting - an estimated 200 million children are underweight at any given time, with more than 6 million of those children suffering from the worst form of malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition. Experts estimate that malnutrition constitutes over 22% of India's disease burden, making malnutrition one of the nation's largest health threats.

The causes of malnutrition and therefore the solutions to the problem vary as much as the Indian people. To understand and solve malnutrition requires patience, nuance, flexibility, and above all determination.

Follow me as I set out to understand malnutrition in the subcontinent and begin to tackle it

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Posts from realmedicineblog.org

Below you'll find a series of entries from my blog posts on Real Medicine Foundation's blog, realmedicineblog.com.

Since the beginning of my work in malnutrition I posted from time to time on the RMF blog on my findings and the developments of RMF's Malnutrition Eradication Program. I include these posts for your reference as a lot of this serves as a good background to my work and my process learning about malnutrition in India. I decided to start a blog specific to malnutrition, in addition to blogging on RMF's blog about my programmatic work, in order to share my learning experiences and observations from the field. While I still might crosspost on some items, this blog will serve as more of an unbiased reference for those who want to learn more about malnutrition from someone who is figuring it out.
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