A Study of Nutritional Deficiency Disease in Women in Bihar during Pregnancy

Vol-4 | Issue-6 | June 2019 | Published Online: 12 June 2019    PDF ( 140 KB )
Author(s)
Dr. Kumari Madhavi 1

1Lecturer/ Guest Faculty, Deptt of Home Science, S.kMahila College ,Begusarai, Lalit Narayan MithilaUniversity ,Darbhanga (India)

Abstract

The nutrition at the optimal level in women is very important for their own health and also for the future generation's health. It can cause serious health issue if a mother not gets nutritional food at the time of pregnancy and also it gives confrontational outcomes such as childhood death and children born with some disease and so on. The Bihar is the state in India which has known for its lowest health profile it is due to the deficiency, and also people are undernourished. The relationship between nutrition and birth outcomes is subjective to many factors that include demographic factors and socioeconomic factors. India has the fastest rising economies around the world and now this is facing calamities for growing the below nourishment in children as well as in mother. The Survey by National Family Health Survey has reported that approximately 23% of the women in India have the body mass index which has below to the normal in which most of the women are from Bihar. The main goal of this study is to measure the health change in the Bihar with the help of different indicators and compare those results with the changes at the national level that is based on national family health survey three and four. The indicators which are selected for comparing at the national level are Obesity, Anaemic status of the women in reproductive period and in pregnancy.

Keywords
Body Mass index (BMI), Infant rate of Mortality, Nutrition, Anaemia, Nutritional status.
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