India’s Undernutrition and Human Capital

Addressing the Roots

Veena S Rao (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2026
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-0-367-64306-5 (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 the present time 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 multi-sectoral nutrition interventions (2022–2025).

Introduction

1 The State of Our Human Capital: Assessing the Indicators

2 India’s Undernutrition and Dietary Deficiency Has Deep Roots

3 Causes and Consequences of Malnutrition

4 The Economic Cost of Undernutrition and Dietary Deficit

5 Independent India’s Response

6 Poshan Abhiyaan

7 A Strategy that Worked: Karnataka Comprehensive Nutrition Mission

8 How Do We Improve India’s Nutritional and Health Status within a Generation?

Summing Up: A Roadmap for the Future

Appendix 1: Consultation, June 13, 2014: Addressing India’s Malnutrition: A National Priority

Appendix 2: Consultation – NITI Aayog – June 27, 2016: India’s Malnutrition – A Call to Action

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2026
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	590 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-64306-5 / 0367643065
ISBN-13	978-0-367-64306-5 / 9780367643065
Zustand	Neuware