{"id":31409,"date":"2024-10-26T18:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T13:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=31409"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:56:31","slug":"minimum-diet-diversity-failure-mddf-in-indian-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/26-10-2024\/minimum-diet-diversity-failure-mddf-in-indian-states","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Diet Diversity Failure (MDDF) in Indian States\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus :GS 2\/Health<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The report was published in the National Medical Journal of India published by All India Institute of Medical Sciences.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Minimum diet diversity<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Minimum dietary diversity is a reliable and widely used indicator approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) that reflects the access and consumption of diverse food groups and essential micronutrient availability to the children.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As per the WHO, nutrition-related factors lead to approximately 35 percent of child deaths and contribute to 11 per cent of the total disease burden globally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebecf0\"><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/12-03-2025\/minimum-dietary-diversity-new-indicator\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/12-03-2025\/minimum-dietary-diversity-new-indicator\"><strong>UN Statistical Commission adopts a new indicator on Minimum Dietary Diversity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Findings of recent report<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Data sources :<\/strong> Scientists used National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) datasets from rounds 3, 4 and 5 to examine MDDF among children longitudinally, regionally and across population groups having diverse background characteristics.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The NFHS surveys, under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, provided representative data covering India. The MDDF rate declined from 87.4% in NFHS-3 (2005-06) to 77.1% in NFHS-5 (2019-21).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Prevalence of MDDF:<\/strong> Despite a decline, eight Indian states, mainly in the north, central, and west, still have over 80% MDDF among children aged 6-23 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"dfc3da\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #dfc3da;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Minimum-Diet-Diversity-Failure-MDDF-in-Indian-States--jpg.webp\" alt=\"Minimum Diet Diversity Failure (MDDF) in Indian States \" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-31411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Minimum-Diet-Diversity-Failure-MDDF-in-Indian-States--jpg.webp 409w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Minimum-Diet-Diversity-Failure-MDDF-in-Indian-States--267x300.webp 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Uttar Pradesh (86.1%), Rajasthan (85.1%), Gujarat (84%), Maharashtra (81.9%), and Madhya Pradesh (81.6%) are the highest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Regional Trends<\/strong>: Central India had the highest MDDF (84.6%) as of 2019-21. Only 95 of the 707 districts analyzed showed MDDF prevalence below 60%, mainly in the south, east, northeast, and north.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Diet Diversity<\/strong>: Consumption of food items within eight groups, including eggs, Vitamin A-rich foods, vegetables, and flesh foods, increased from NFHS-3 to NFHS-5.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Factors Affecting MDDF<\/strong>: Logistic modeling found higher MDDF among children of young, illiterate mothers, girls, poor households, anemic children, low birth-weight infants, and those lacking regular health checkups at anganwadis\/ICDS centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recommendations<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The study emphasizes the need for intensive policy interventions in nutrition resource deliverance, beneficiary population counselling for screening of malnutrition and diet consumption and strengthening of local self-governance systems for programme implementation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Programs like Poshan Abhiyaan and ICDS are active but require stronger convergence to meet gaps in nutritional resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: DTE&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report was published in the National Medical Journal of India published by All India Institute of Medical Sciences.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31409"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39300,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409\/revisions\/39300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}