A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VIDEO ASSISTED PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF MALNUTRITION AMONG THE PARENTS OF (0-5YRS) CHILDREN IN SELECTED AREA OF RANCHI, JHARKHAND

Abstract

India had 195.9 million underfed individuals or people with chronic biological process deficiency in 2015-17, down from 204.1 million in 2005-07, in line with United Nations agency knowledge. The prevalence of hungriness has additionally gone down from 21.7% in 2005-07 to 15.9% in 2015-17. India is one among the fastest growing countries in terms of population and social science, sitting at a population of 1,149.95 million in 2009 and growing at 10-14% annually from 2001-2007.

India's Gross Domestic Product growth was 9 % from 2007 to 2008, since Independence in 1947, its economic status has been classified as a low-income country with majority of the population at or below the poverty line. Though most of the population remains living below the National poverty level, its economic process indicates new opportunities and a movement towards increase within the prevalence of chronic diseases which is determined in at high rates in developed countries like Us, Canada and Australia. The combination of individuals living in financial condition and therefore the recent economic process of Bharat has led to the co-emergence of two sorts of malnutrition: under-nutrition and over nutrition.

 Malnutrition refers to the case wherever there's associate degree of unbalanced diet during which some nutrients square measure in excess, lacking or wrong proportion. Simply we can categories it to be under-nutrition and over-nutrition. Despite India's five hundredth increase in Gross Domestic Product since1991. Over one third of the world's starving kids board Bharat. Among these, half of them under three are underweight and a third of wealthiest children are over-nutrient.