{"id":3676,"date":"2015-07-05T04:08:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2015-07-05T04:08:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T12:08:08","slug":"mystery-surrounds-india-health-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/mystery-surrounds-india-health-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery surrounds India health survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=lead media-landscape full-width has-caption><figcaption class=media-caption>\n<p>                        About a third of Indias children are underweight, the survey says<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Good health data is rare in India. The last time the country published a comprehensive, state-wide survey was back in 2007.  <\/p>\n<p>So why hasnt a vast survey of women and children carried out by the Indian government with the UN agency for children, Unicef, been released?<\/p>\n<p>Indias so-called Rapid Survey of Children was a huge undertaking. Almost 100,000 children were measured and weighed and more than 200,000 people interviewed across the countrys 29 states.  <\/p>\n<p>The final report was due for publication in October last year, the BBC understands. Yet, more than half a year later, the important body of data remains secret.<\/p>\n<p>Leading development economist Jean Dreze describes the delay in publication as an absolute scandal.<\/p>\n<p>All the neighbouring countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Pakistan and even Afghanistan have up to date nutritional surveys, he says. <\/p>\n<p>It is hard to account for a 10-year gap without attributing some sort of political reluctance.<\/p>\n<figure class=media-landscape full-width has-caption>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-33369710\" rel=\"nofollow\">article source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a third of Indias children are underweight, the survey says Good health data is rare in India. The last time the country published a comprehensive, state-wide survey was back in 2007. So why hasnt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-health-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}