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2500+ people endorsed overnight, the disability sector's representation to @MoHFW_INDIA minister @mansukhmandviya on restoring the suddenly dropped questions from the upcoming National Family Health survey NFHS-6. Read it @ bit.ly/question-of-in…

#NfhsDrops #QuestionOfInclusion Jigsaw of letters NFHS with...
Will be going through the NFHS-6 questionnaire compilation today.

And posting thoughts and doubts as I go along on this thread.

drive.google.com/file/d/1nVC-0a…

Starting with a term I've never heard of : GAUNA -
apparently rooted in child marriage customs as the 'consummation ritual '
indiatoday.in/india/story/ch…

So this send off to house of 'husband' after menarche for consummation / the start of actual married life is apparently a custom in some North Indian states.
In some cases gauna occurs only after legal age but pestering happens 😑

#NFHS-6 #ChildMarriage
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Baffled that public health policy organisations & professionals are mum about @IIPSMumbai dropping anemia ALTOGETHER from #NFHS-6, barring few voices below.

Why @jsa_india @SOCHARASOPHEA @PHMglobal @SNEHAmumbai @jan_arogya @CEHAT1 @napmindia @iphindia etc?

#QuestionOfInclusion Diagram of Prevalence of An...
2 decades of anemia data in NFHS dropped because ... What?

Here's the entire NFHS-6 set of schedules and manuals released quietly by IIPS after the disability sector made a noise :
drive.google.com/file/d/1nVC-0a…

References to anaemia still persist in the instructions to interviewers !
For 2 decades India (& the world) has been using capillary blood for demographic health surveys. IIPS made it clear that the data is not for diagnosis but estimates. If the evidence pointing to capillary blood Hb results being higher has been around for so long, why act only now?
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In view of rising incidents of obesity in children and women over the past decade, especially in the recent spurt shown in #NFHS-5, a National Consultation on Prevention of Maternal Adolescent and Childhood Obesity was organized by #NITIAayog.

#FitIndia #EatRightIndia
In the National Consultation global experts, representatives from @UN bodies, central ministries and national research institutions presented their evidence and recommendations.

#FitIndia #EatRightIndia @MinistryWCD
A consensus emerged on the need for a whole of Government and whole of society approach in tackling the twin nutrition challenge of obesity and undernutrition. #FitIndia #EatRightIndia
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#TRIBECON begins #Pravara; felicitations to #AbhayBang @SearchGad & #sudarshan #VGKK for their inspiring work on #TribalHealth; @DrLahariya @whoindia among others felicitated
#abhayBang #healthsystem design for tribal communities need to be relooked for #UHC; strategies & schemes must adapt with local social & cultural context; recollects #Brainstorming with @DesirajuKeshav at @SearchGad leading to #ExpertCommittee #tribalhealth @TribalHealthIND
#TRIBECON #AbhayBang notes with happiness increasing interest in #tribalhealth research, yet this continues to be “off the beaten path”; congratulations to #pravara medical college in bringing this together; the proposed #Bandardhara declaration to improve #tribalhealth research
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