Abstract
Malnutrition with its consequent effects on overall health is a major public health problem in most of the developing countries. There is a need to quantify the extent of malnutrition and health problems mainly from the view point of:
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planning and implementing appropriate inter-sectoral strategies for the uplift- ment of the overall health and nutrition status of the population;
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monitoring and surveillance of the nutrition and health status of communities for midcourse corrections;
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assessing the effect and impact of the intervention programmes for necessary feed-back to the planning process.
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Mathur, Y.N., Rao, D.H. (1985). Methods for evaluating nutrition and health status. In: Eeckels, R.E., Ransome-Kuti, O., Kroonenberg, C.C. (eds) Child Health in the Tropics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5012-2_14
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