Prevalence of anaemia in India and strategies for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target
Keywords:
Nutrition
Abstract
India recognised anaemia as a major public health problem and initiated national programmes for combating anaemia in pregnant women and pre-school children in 1970. It is important to find out the coverage and impact of these programmes on prevalence of anaemia and also assess the prevalence of anaemia across all groups of population.
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India New Delhi
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efficacy and implications for research and programs The
Journal of nutrition 132 813S-819S
Angeles-Agdeppa I, Schultink W, Sastroamidjojo S, Gross R and
Karyadi D (1997) Weekly micronutrient supplementation
to build iron stores in female Indonesian adolescents The
American Journal of clinical nutrition 66 177-183
Bhaskaram P, Balakrishna N, Radhakrishna K V and
Krishnaswamy K (2003)Validation of hemoglobin
estimation using HemocueThe Indian Journal of Pediatrics
70 25-28
Bursey M, Curtis K, Gibson M, Gibson R, Xu H and Lyon M
(2013) HemoCue versus Complete Blood Count for
Hemoglobin Measurement in Adults With Vaso-occlusive
Crisis Due to Sickle Cell Disease Annals of Emergency
Medicine 62 S40-S41
Duque X, Martinez H, Vilchis-Gil J, Mendoza E, Flores-
Hernández S, MoránS and Mera R M (2014) Effect of
supplementation with ferrous sulfate or iron bis-glycinate
chelate on ferritin concentration in Mexican schoolchildren:
a randomized controlled trial Nutrition journal 13 71-81
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National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2 http://
www.rchiips.org/nfhs/nfhs2.shtml, accessed on June 2nd,
2018
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www.rchiips.org/nfhs/nfhs3.shtml, accessed on June 2nd,
2018
IIPS (2015) National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 4 Fact Sheets
http://www.rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-4.shtml,
accessed on June 2nd, 2018
IIPS (2005)DLHS- 2 District Level Household and Facility Survey
http://www.rchiips.org/PRCH-2.html, accessed on June
2nd 2018
IIPS (2014) DLHS-4 District Level Household and Facility
Surveyhttp://www.rchiips.org/DLHS-4.html, accessed on
June 2nd 2018
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pregnancy Indian J Med Res 130 627-33
Kapoor S K, Kapil U, Dwivedi S N, Anand K, Pathak P and
Singh P (2002) Comparison of HemoCue method with
cyanmethemoglobin method for estimation of hemoglobin
Indian pediatrics 39 743-746
Kozuki N, Lee A C and Katz J (2013) Child Health Epidemiology
Reference Group. Moderate to severe, but not mild,
maternal anaemia is associated with increased risk of smallfor
gestational-age outcomes J Nutr 142 358-62
Lynch S R (2000) The potential impact of iron supplementation
during adolescence on iron status in pregnancyThe Journal
of nutrition 130 448S-451S
Maternal Health Task Force World Health organisation (WHO)
(2016) Improving Quality of Antenatal Care: New
Guidelines From the World Health Organization T.H. Chan
School of Public Health; Harvard Boston: https://
www.mhtf.org/2016/11/10/, accessed on June 2nd 20, 2018
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) (1970)
Prophylaxis against nutritional anaemia among mothers
and children Technical Information, MCH No. 1 New
Delhi
MoHFW (1989) Report of the meeting on Prevention and control
of nutritional anaemias Government of India and UNICEF
New Delhi
MoHFW (1991) Policy on control of nutritional anaemia MoHFW
New Delhi
MoHFW (2013) Guidelines for Control of Iron Deficiency
Anaemia Government of India, New Delhi. http://
www.pbnrhm.org/docs/iron_plus_guidelines.pdf, accessed
on June 2nd, 2018
Mohan Ram M, Ramana Rao G V and Sastry J G (2002) A
comparative study on prevalence of anaemia in women by
cyanmethemoglobin and Hemocue methods Indian J
Community Med 27 58-61
National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) Technical
Report No. 22 (2003) Prevalence of Micronutrient
Deficiencies Hyderabad: National Institute of Nutrition;
http://www.nnmbindia.org/NNMB%20MND%20
REPORT%202004-Web.pdf accessed on June 2nd, 2018
NNMB (2012) National Nutrition Monitoring bureau repeat
surveys - nnmbindia.org/1_NNMB_Third_ Repeat_Rural_
Survey_ Technicl_Report_26.pdf accessed on 22.6. 2018
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English/PDF/E0000_SH39PDFaccessed on 26.6.2018
Pathak P, Kapoor S K, Dwivedi S N, Singh P and Kapil U (2004)
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cyanmethemoglobin and HemoCue methods Indian Journal
of Community Medicine 29 149
Pasricha S R, Hayes E, Kalumba K and Biggs B A (2013) Effect
of daily iron supplementation on health in children aged 4-
23 months: a systematic review and meta-analysis of
randomised controlled trials The Lancet Global Health 1
e77-e86
Registrar General of India (2015) Annual Health Survey: CAB
Component http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/
hh-series/cab.html, accessed on June 2nd, 2018
Sharma A, Patnaik R, Garg S and Ramachandran P (2008)
Detection & management of anaemia in pregnancy in an
urban primary health care institution Indian J Med Res
128 45-51
Sivakumar B, Brahmam G N V, Madhavan Nair K, Ranganathan
S, Vishnuvardhana Rao M, Vijayaraghavan K and Kamala
Krishnaswamy (2001) Prospects of fortification of
saltwith iron and iodineBritish Journal of Nutrition 5 S167-
S173
Stevens G A, Finucane M M, De-Regil L M, Paciorek C J,
Flaxman S R and Branca F (2013) Global, regional, and
national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence
of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and
non-pregnant women for 1995-2011: A systematic analysis
of population-representative dataThe Lancet Global Health
1 e16-e25
Steer PJ (2000) Maternalhemoglobin concentration and birth
weight The American journal of clinical nutrition 71 1285S-
1287S
Thompson J, Biggs B A and Pasricha S R (2013) Effects of daily
iron supplementation in 2-to 5-year-old children:
systematic review and meta-analysis Pediatrics 131 739-
753
WHO (2006) Guidelines on food fortification with micronutrients
http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/guide_food_
fortification_micronutrients.pdf accessed on 28.1.2018
WHO (2011) Intermittent iron and folic acid supplementation in
menstruating women http://www.who.int/elena/titles/
guidance_summaries/iron_women/en/ accessed on
28.1.2018
WHO (2015) The global prevalence of anaemia 2011 http://
www.who.int/nutrition/publications/micronutrients/
global_prevalence_anaemia.../en/, accessed on June 2nd 2018
WHO (2016) Guideline daily iron supplementation to infants
and children www.who.int/nutrition/publications/.../
guidelines/daily_iron_supp_childrens/en accessed on June
2nd 2018
WHO (2016) Daily iron supplementation in adult women and
adolescent girls www.who.int/nutrition/publications/.../
guidelines/daily_iron_supp_womenandgirls/en/ accessed on
28.1.2018.
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