PMID- 27617829
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170203
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1543-5237 (Electronic)
IS  - 0367-0244 (Linking)
VI  - 55
IP  - 6
DP  - 2016 Nov-Dec
TI  - Understanding Malnutrition of Tribal Children in India: The Role of Women's 
      Empowerment.
PG  - 508-527
AB  - Child malnutrition is considered to be the key risk factor for illness during 
      adolescence and is responsible for about one-third of child deaths globally. 
      Historically tribal communities have lagged behind the general population in 
      terms of most socioeconomic aspects, and one such aspect is the nutritional 
      status of children. The present study analyzes regional variations in child 
      malnutrition and its association with women's empowerment in the tribal 
      communities of India. The investigation is based on secondary data compiled from 
      India's third National Family Health Survey (NFHS). Both bivariate and 
      multivariate techniques were used to analyze data. We found a conditional inverse 
      association between child malnutrition and women's empowerment in tribal 
      communities. It is conditional in the sense that women's empowerment is effective 
      when other factors supposed to influence nutritional status are proactive. Policy 
      prescriptions are discussed.
FAU - Debnath, Avijit
AU  - Debnath A
AD  - a Department of Economics , Assam University , Silchar , India.
FAU - Bhattacharjee, Nairita
AU  - Bhattacharjee N
AD  - a Department of Economics , Assam University , Silchar , India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160912
PL  - United States
TA  - Ecol Food Nutr
JT  - Ecology of food and nutrition
JID - 0315073
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Asian People
MH  - *Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena/ethnology
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Developed Countries
MH  - *Diet/adverse effects/ethnology/psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Food Supply/economics
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - India/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Malnutrition/epidemiology/ethnology/etiology/*prevention & control
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Models, Psychological
MH  - Mothers/education
MH  - Nutrition Surveys
MH  - *Nutritional Status/ethnology
MH  - *Power, Psychological
MH  - Principal Component Analysis
MH  - Risk
MH  - *Women's Rights
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - India
OT  - child malnutrition
OT  - logistic regression
OT  - scheduled tribe
OT  - women's empowerment
EDAT- 2016/09/13 06:00
MHDA- 2017/02/06 06:00
CRDT- 2016/09/13 06:00
PHST- 2016/09/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/02/06 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/09/13 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/03670244.2016.1223652 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ecol Food Nutr. 2016 Nov-Dec;55(6):508-527. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2016.1223652. 
      Epub 2016 Sep 12.