: Children from communities facing discrimination are more likely to have stunted growth: Study #IndiaNEWS Vulnerable to social discrimination, children from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Muslim

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Children from communities facing discrimination are more likely to have stunted growth: Study #IndiaNEWS
Vulnerable to social discrimination, children from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Muslim families are more likely to experience stunting – a condition where the body height is less than the accepted range at a given age – says a new study. Even socio-economic advantages do not change the correlation between stunting and exclusion.“The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Caste Discrimination and Stunting�, a July 2021 study by Ashwini Deshpande of Ashoka University’s Center for Economic Data and Analysis and Rajesh Ramachandran of the University of Heidelberg, was aimed at understanding the impact of caste and socio-economic factors on stunting among children. It found that marginalised castes – Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes – reported a higher prevalence of the condition because of the widespread and entrenched, though illegal, practice of untouchability. Among Muslim families too, stunting was common, regardless of social status.The study is significant because so far the emphasis has been on researching the links between child malnutrition and poverty and the lack of access to resources. “While stunting in India is high overall, there is a great deal of difference by social identity and we need to focus on that and ask why rates of stunting differ by social identity,�...Read more

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