India’s Undernutrition and Human Capital

Addressing the Roots

Veena S Rao (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2026
Routledge India (Verlag)
9780367643065 (ISBN)

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This book explores the undernutrition situation in India and its repercussions on the country’s human capital, from a public policy practitioner’s approach. It critically examines government policy since Independence to present times and foregrounds the issues that have led to the persistence of poor nutritional and health status among a large section of India’s population. The volume traces the complex history of public nutrition and public policy in India, and presents a sound multi-sectoral, intergenerational strategy which addresses the root causes and has been successfully piloted, and can be scaled up across chronic undernutrition pockets of India.

A ground-up approach to policymaking and implementation, the book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of public nutrition/ health, public administration and development studies. It will be of great professional use to policymakers, programmers and NGOs working in the public nutrition/health sector.

Veena S Rao, Director of AuroCentre for Public Nutrition, Public Health and Public Policy (Bangalore) is a retired IAS officer and former Secretary to Government of India. Her research focuses on public nutrition, health, and policy, with significant publications on multisectoral nutrition interventions (2022-2025).

Introduction

Chapter 1

The State of our Human Capital: Assessing the Indicators

Chapter 2

India’s Undernutrition and Dietary Deficit has deep roots

Chapter 3

Causes and Consequences of Undernutrition and Dietary Deficit

Chapter 4

The Economic Cost of Undernutrition and Dietary Deficit

Chapter 5

Independent India’s Response

Chapter 6

Poshan Abhiyaan

Chapter 7

A Strategy that Worked: Karnataka Comprehensive Nutrition Mission

Chapter 8

How do we improve India’s nutritional and health status within a generation?

Summing Up - A Roadmap for the Future

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.1.2026
Zusatzinfo	60 Tables, black and white; 18 Line drawings, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780367643065 / 9780367643065
Zustand	Neuware