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More than half of under-5 kids in India are anaemic

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surajmal Newbie

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Pass a law stating that parents of malnourished kids will be put in jail for life. Pass another law stating that parents of kids not in school will be put in jail for life. Do random health checkups in schools.

Won't fix the malnourishment problem but takes care of the population problem which inturn fixes the malnourishment problem. 

Of course , it's already too late to fix the population problem . And whatever drop in growth rate you get won't have much effect in the grand scheme of things. 

Question is, what is the optimal balance between the drop in growth rate and the minimum cost to administer these random tests I.e. find the minimum number of tests / student/unit time (which could be less than 1 ) it takes to for parents to consider contraception. 

 

Of course , this could also lead to an increase in fillicides. 

So the Nash equilibrium is reached by doing absolutely nothing (status quo where govt pays lip service and few rupees to NGOs to do their thing)

 

{Rewatched Beautiful Mind Yesterday) 

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Muloghonto Grand Master

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19 minutes ago, surajmal said:

Pass a law stating that parents of malnourished kids will be put in jail for life. Pass another law stating that parents of kids not in school will be put in jail for life. Do random health checkups in schools.

Won't fix the malnourishment problem but takes care of the population problem which inturn fixes the malnourishment problem. 

Of course , it's already too late to fix the population problem . And whatever drop in growth rate you get won't have much effect in the grand scheme of things. 

Question is, what is the optimal balance between the drop in growth rate and the minimum cost to administer these random tests I.e. find the minimum number of tests / student/unit time (which could be less than 1 ) it takes to for parents to consider contraception. 

 

Of course , this could also lead to an increase in fillicides. 

So the Nash equilibrium is reached by doing absolutely nothing (status quo where govt pays lip service and few rupees to NGOs to do their thing)

 

{Rewatched Beautiful Mind Yesterday) 

Or we can start an education campaign to better improve Indian diet, where if they are vegetarian, they eat 3x more variety of veggies than they do, if they are omnivores, they eat 28-30g of meat per day.

Seems obvious. Others have solved malnutrition. We can too. 

NareshK Newbie

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Mostly a dietary issue than an economic issue I think. A lot of people in India rely on vegetarian diets but don't get sufficient amount of protein. You have to compensate vegetables with nuts, milk, soy foods etc.

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6 hours ago, Muloghonto said:

Or we can start an education campaign to better improve Indian diet, where if they are vegetarian, they eat 3x more variety of veggies than they do, if they are omnivores, they eat 28-30g of meat per day.

Seems obvious. Others have solved malnutrition. We can too. 

 

2 hours ago, NareshK said:

Mostly a dietary issue than an economic issue I think. A lot of people in India rely on vegetarian diets but don't get sufficient amount of protein. You have to compensate vegetables with nuts, milk, soy foods etc.

Not fully true , Indian muslims and lower caste Hndu's do eat meat.The pigs we see in cities are mostly domesticated and eaten by Chamar community.Muslims do eat buffalo meat.

 

Also Indian Govt should stop export of food Like Buffalo meat as it increase price of Buffalo meat and take it away from the table of poor. It also increase illegal cow slaughter which always become big communal issue

G_B_ Grand Master

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hmm looking at the family survey 2015 and comparing to 2005, barring child nutrition most key indicators have been a healthy improvement.

 

UPA probably deserves credit for the same. 

 

NHFS-4 

 

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NEW DELHI: Health insurance coverage in India has witnessed a sharp increase reaching 28.7% households in 2014-15 from merely 4.8% around 10 years ago, according to the latest National Family Health Survey.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/health-insurance-coverage-sees-big-jump-in-last-10-years/articleshow/57472206.cms

 

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/govt-survey-shows-improved-sex-ratio-decline-in-infant-mortality-rate/articleshow/57399024.cms

 

 

So defo there needs to be a change in attitude towards children's nutrituion. India as a whole is getting healthier across the board, rich or poor. But children nutrition is lagging.

 

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Within India too, there is huge disparity. For instance in Southern States, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal, the fertility rate is already below 1.6-2.0 which means population will decline within the next generation. However, UP and Bihar have fertility rate of 3.5 and these two states are among the most populous in India and other surrounding states like MP, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand also have high fertility rates. As a result, population will continue to rise in these states.

 

Poverty levels in AP, TN, Kerala, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh is around 9-10 % while in UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh its around 35-40 %. Malnutrition, illiteracy is quite high in these states as well. Because they form such a big part of the population, the overall scenario looks worse.

 

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