malnutrition

To improve treatment outcomes, cancer care centres need to start screening children for food insecurity early on and link families to social welfare programmes.

Shifting weather patterns and heatwaves in India threaten income and food security. Here’s how farmers, scientists, and others are adapting.

An IAS officer reflects on the importance of local-level data, intersectoral solutions, and the role of communities, governments, and nonprofits in fighting malnutrition.

The survey indicates an alarming increase in the number of wasting children, anaemic women, and obese men.

In response to the food crisis created by the lockdown, here’s what anganwadis can do to ensure that children stay nourished in times of COVID-19 and beyond.

In rural Rajasthan, community health workers are taking on new roles—dispelling myths around the pandemic and allaying fears that come with the lockdown.

The data tells us that India's aspirations to improve its nutrition status cannot be realised without focused policy changes towards the Scheduled Tribes.

Non-communicable diseases are increasing at an alarming rate in rural India, with long-term consequences on people's health and finances. The worrying part is that our healthcare system is ill-equipped to tackle this crisis.

Our success at reducing child malnutrition will depend on how well we are able to use data to inform our policy and programmes related to addressing the problem.