Using data from the 2016 Indian Demographic and Health Survey, researchers examined how child anthropometric failure--a marker of undernutrition--varied across 597,121 villages in rural India; villages with high levels of undernutrition were often juxtaposed with villages exhibiting low levels of undernutrition within the same district, suggesting a need for geographic precision in targeting policies for reducing undernutrition, according to the authors.
Article #20-25865: "Precision mapping child undernutrition for nearly 600,000 inhabited census villages in India," by Rockli Kim et al.
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