How Are India’s Districts Doing on Nutrition-Related Non-Communicable Diseases? Insights from the National Family Health Survey-4

HOW ARE INDIA’S DISTRICTS DOING ON NUTRITION-RELATED NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES? INSIGHTS FROM THE NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY-4

by IFPRI | May 9, 2017

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A set of diet-related global non-communicable diseases (NCD) targets, to be achieved by 2025, was endorsed by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2013. A sub-set of those targets are directly nutrition-related.

This Data Note describes the current levels of a set of key NCD-related outcomes at the district level in India, summarizing data from the recently released district fact sheets of the National Family Health Survey.