Passi, Santosh Jain and Gupta, Shipra
Adequate nutrition for women and children
- Kurukshetra: A Journal of Rural Development
- 71(10), Aug, 2023: p.5-11
Adequate nutrition for women and children is crucial. Women’s nutritional wellbeing, particularly during the reproductive years, is the single is the single most important criterion, influencing their pregnancy outcome. Malnutrition among women, both prior to and during pregnancy, of low-birth Wight (LBW)/ pre-term deliveries, still-births, abortions as well as high maternal mortality rates; and that during infancy/childhood hampers the child’s growth and development.- Reproduced