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What Explains Child Malnutrition of Indigenous People of Northeast India?

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  • Laishram Ladusingh
  • Manoj Alagarajan
  • Konsam Dinachandra Singh

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Household risk factors affecting child health, particularly malnutrition, are mainly basic amenities like drinking water, toilet facility, housing and fuel used for cooking. This paper considered the collective impact of basic amenities measured by an index specially constructed as the contextual factor of child malnutrition. The contextual factor operates at both the macro and micro levels namely the state level and the household level. The importance of local contextual factors is especially important when studying the nutritional status of children of indigenous people living in remote and inaccessible regions. This study has shown the contextual factors as potential factors of malnutrition among children in northeast India, which is home to the largest number of tribes in the country.

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  • Laishram Ladusingh & Manoj Alagarajan & Konsam Dinachandra Singh, 2015. "What Explains Child Malnutrition of Indigenous People of Northeast India?," Working Papers id:7539, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Singh, Prakarsh & Masters, William A., 2017. "Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 219-231.
    2. Sauer, Jeffery & Berrang-Ford, Lea & Patterson, Kaitlin & Donnelly, Blanaid & Lwasa, Shuaib & Namanya, Didas & Zavaleta, Carol & Ford, James & Harper, Sherilee, 2018. "An analysis of the nutrition status of neighboring Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Kanungu District, southwestern Uganda: Close proximity, distant health realities," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 217(C), pages 55-64.
    3. Muhammad Usman & Katarzyna Kopczewska, 2022. "Spatial and Machine Learning Approach to Model Childhood Stunting in Pakistan: Role of Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-17, September.
    4. Pradeep Kumar & Harshal Sonekar & Adrita Banerjee & Nuzrath Jahan, 2021. "A Multilevel Analysis of Factors Associated with Malnutrition among Tribal Children in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey 2015-16," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 14(4), pages 1547-1569, August.
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    6. N. Brahmanandam & R. Nagarajan & Srinivas Goli, 2021. "Change in Household Environment Condition in India: Evidence From Panel Data," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(4), pages 21582440211, October.

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