* Most children of housekeeping staff in an Indian hospital found to have low nutrition levels
* India’s officially defined poverty-line needs to be revised say nutrition researchers
* Nurses tended to have overweight children while the kids of doctors were found to be normal
NEW DELHI: A pilot study of nutrition status among children in a hospital community in the Indian capital suggests that the national poverty threshold, as defined by a government-appointed committee, may need to be revised.
The study, results of which were published this month (November) in PLOS ONE, was carried out among the families of housekeeping staff, nurses and doctors attached to the St. Stephen’s Hospital, with the three groups taken to represent distinct socio-economic levels.
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