Social dimensions related to anaemia among women of childbearing age from rural India

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 365-372

  Rao, Shobha ^a   Joshi, Smita ^a   Bhide, Pradnya ^a   Puranik, Bhairavi ^a   Kanade, Asawari ^a  

^a AGHARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Anaemia; India; Rural women; Social aspects

Indexed keywords

GIARDIA LAMBLIA VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON INTAKE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INDIA; IRON, DIETARY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VEGETABLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952499292     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980010002776     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination, Sub-committee on Nutrition (1991) Controlling Iron Deficiency. ACC/SCN State of the Art Series, Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper no. 9. Geneva: ACC/SCN.
2. Seshadri S, Sharma K, Ra AE et al. (1994) Iron supplementation to control pregnancy anaemia. Proc Nutr Soc India 41, 131-140.
3. Sood SK, Ramachandran K, Mathur M et al. (1975) WHO sponsored collaborative studies on nutritional anaemia in India. 1. The effects of supplemental oral iron administration to pregnant women. Q J Med 44, 241-258.
4. ICMR Task Force Study (1989) Evaluation of the National Nutritional Anaemia Prophhylaxis Programme. New Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research.
5. ICMR Task Force Study (1992) Field Supplementation Trials in Pregnant Women with 60 mg, 120mg and 180 mg of Iron with 500 mcg of Folic Acid. New Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research.
6. Christian P, Abbi R, Gujral S et al. (1989) At risk status of pregnant women of Panchmahals (Gujarat) and Ghandrapur (Maharashtra). Arogya J Health Sci 15, 85-91.
7. Agarwal DK, Agarwal KN & Tripathi AM (1987) Nutritional status in rural pregnant women of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Indian Pediatr 24, 119-125.
8. Sarin AR (1995) Severe anaemia of pregnancy: recent experience. J Gynaecol Obstet 50, Suppl. 27, 545-549.
9. Ramachandran P (1989) Nutrition in pregnancy. In Women and Nutrition in India, pp. 153-193 [C Gopalan and S Kaur, editors]. New Delhi: Nutrition Foundation of India Special Publication Services.
10. Ratnam SG, Rao KB & Arul Kumaran S (1992) Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Postgraduates, vol. 1. Madras: Orient Longman.
11. Bothwell TH (2000) Iron requirements in pregnancies and strategies to meet them. Am J Clin Nutr 72, 1 Suppl., 257S-264S. (Pubitemid 30439797)
12. Rao BSN (1978) Studies on iron deficiency anaemia. Indian J Med Res Suppl. 68, 58.
13. Toteja GS & Singh P (2004) Micronutrient Profile of the Indian Population. New Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research.
14. Vijayalaxmi P, Kuputhai U & Meenakshi Devi N (1988) Nutritional profile of selected expectant mothers and the cost of pregnancy. Indian J Nutr Diet 25, 247-253.
15. Ratwani L & Varma M (1989) A study of nutritional status and food practices of the pregnant and lactating women residing in selected desert areas of Jodhpur. Indian J Nutr Diet 26, 304-310.
16. Piers LS, Diggavi S, Thangam S et al. (1995) Changes in energy expenditure, anthropometry and energy intake during the course of pregnancy and lactation in well nourished Indian women. Am J Clin Nutr 61, 501-513.
17. Hutter I (1996) Reduction of food intake during pregnancy in rural South India. Trop Med Int Health 1, 399-405.
18. Gupta R & Sharma I (1980) An overview of the dietary consumption pattern of pregnant and lactating mothers of Haryana region, Hissar. Indian J Nutr Diet 17, 13-19.
19. Rao S, Yajnik CS, Kanade A et al. (2001) Intake of micronutrient rich foods in rural Indian mothers is associated with the size of their babies at birth: Pune Maternal Nutrition Study. J Nutr 131, 1217-1224. (Pubitemid 32275104)
20. Dacie JV & Lewis SM (2006) Practical Haematology, 10th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
21. Snedecor GW & Cochran WG (1967) Statistical Methods, 6th ed. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
22. Stoltzfus RJ (2001) Defining iron-deficiency anaemia in public health terms: a time for reflection. J Nutr 131, 2 Suppl. 2, 565S-567S. (Pubitemid 32115337)
23. Saibaba A, Mohan Ram M, Ramana Rao GV et al. (2002) Nutritional status of adolescent girls of urban slums and the impact of IEC on their nutritional knowledge and practices. Indian J Community Med 27, 151-156.
24. Kaur S, Deshmukh PR & Garg BS (2006) Epidemiological correlates of nutritional anaemia in adolescent girls of rural Wardha. Indian J Community Med 31, 255-258.
25. Chandyo RK, Strand TA, Ulvik RJ et al. (2007) Prevalence of iron deficiency and anemia among healthy women of reproductive age in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Eur J Clin Nutr 61, 262-269.
26. Beard JL (2000) Effectiveness and strategies of iron supplementation during pregnancy. Am J Clin Nutr 71, 5 Suppl., 1288S-1294S. (Pubitemid 30230531)
27. Bentley ME & Griffiths PL (2003) The burden of anemia among women in India. Eur J Clin Nutr 57, 52-60. (Pubitemid 36181795)
28. Bhatia JC & Cleland J (1995) Self reported symptoms of gynecological morbidity and their treatment in South India. Stud Fam Plann 26, 203-216. (Pubitemid 26465952)
29. Rao S, Gokhale M, Joshi S et al. (2010) Early life undernutrition and adolescent pregnancy outcome in India. Ann Hum Biol 37, 475-487.
30. Lenders CM, McElarth TF & Scholl TO (2000) Nutrition and adolescent pregnancy. Curr Opin Pediatr 12, 291-296.
31. Indian Council of Medical Research (1998) Nutrient Requirements and Recommended Dietary Allowances for Indians. New Delhi: ICMR.
32. Patterson AJ, Brown WJ, David CK et al. (2001) Dietary treatment of iron deficiency in women of childbearing age. Am J Clin Nutr 74, 650-656. (Pubitemid 33019184)
33. Garg A & Kashyap S (2006) Effect of counseling on nutritional status during pregnancy. Indian J Pediatr 73, 687-692. (Pubitemid 44319428)
34. Amani R & Soflaei M (2006) Nutrition education alone improves dietary practices but not hematologic indices of adolescent girls in Iran. Food Nutr Bull 27, 260-264. (Pubitemid 44446198)
35. Jones KM, Specio SE, Shrestha P et al. (2005) Nutrition knowledge and practices and consumption of vitamin A rich plants by rural Nepali participants and non participants in a kitchen garden program. Food Nutr Bull 26, 198-208. (Pubitemid 40906588)
36. de Pee S, Bloem MW, Satoto et al. (1998) Impact of a social marketing campaign promoting dark green leafy vegetables and eggs in central Java, Indonesia. Int J Vitam Nutr Res 68, 389-398.