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Factors influencing receipt of iron supplementation by young children and their mothers in rural India: local and national cross-sectional studies.

Sant-Rayn SR Pasricha, Beverley-Ann BA Biggs, N S NS Prashanth, H H Sudarshan, Rob R Moodie, Jim J Black, and Arun A Shet

BMC Public Health (2011) PMID 21810279 PMCID PMC3171369

In India, 55% of women and 69.5% of preschool children are anaemic despite national policies recommending routine iron supplementation. Understanding factors associated with receipt of iron in the field could help optimise implementation of anaemia control policies. Thus, we undertook 1) a cross-sectional study to evaluate iron supplementation to children (and mothers) in rural Karnataka, India, and 2) an analysis of all-India rural data from the National Family Health Study 2005-6 (NFHS-3).

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-617
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