Volume : 1, Issue : 4, September - 2012

Public Health Nutrition Programmes in Odisha: A Conceptual Approach to Assessment of Intervention Subject: Medicine

Dr. Bhuputra Panda, Dr. Sanghamitra Pati, Abhimanyu Singh Chauhan

Abstract :

Undernutrition is a global issue. India ranks second in world of the number of children suffering from malnutrition. Odisha, located in the eastern zone of India, shares about 8% of the total undernutrition burden of the Country. Despite of severl flag–ship progarmme interventions by the Government of India and the State government of Odisha, undernutrition especially amongst 0–6 years childern has not shown any significant decline over last five decades. This paper analyzes the existing public health nutrition interventions in the State using the coneptual framework of UNICEF and provides future directives for generating evidences towards setting programme and policy objectives.