Should India adopt a country-specific growth reference to measure undernutrition among its children?

• S.V. Subramanian,
• Anuradha Khailkar,
• Omar Karlsson

Affiliations

S.V. Subramanian

Professor of Population Health and Geography, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Corresponding author.

Anuradha Khailkar

Deputy Director and Consultant Pediatrician, Hirabai Cowasji Jehangir Medical Research Institute, Pune 411001, India

Omar Karlsson

Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Centre for Economic Demography, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Lund, Sweden