India Health Report: Nutrition 2015

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare along with Smt. Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women and Child Development released the “India Health Report: Nutrition 2015” and “Global Nutrition Report” at a function ‘Made in India: Good Nutrition for All.
Findings of the report:
1. Stunting, wasting and underweight rates of India's children have declined, especilly during the last decade, but still exceed levels observed in countries at similar income levels.
2. The rate of improvement in nutritional status has not kept pace with India's significant gains in economic prosperity and agricultural productivity during recent decade.
3. India ignores the problem of undernutrition and its impact on child development as its peril and risks large economic, health and social consequences for fututre generations.
4. India's undernutrition problem is a serious threat to child development.

Different Schemes to improve health and malnutrition status of the country
1. Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY)
- Approved in 2006.
- Aims: 
1. Correcting the imbalances in the availability of affordable healthcare facilities in different parts of the country in general,
2. Augmenting facilities for quality medical education in the under-served States in particular.
- Phases
1. First Phase
setting up of six institutions on the line of AIIMS; and upgradation of 13 existing Government medical college institutions.
2. Second Phase
setting up of two more AIIMS-like institutions, one each in the States of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh and upgradation of six medical college institutions.
3. Third Phase
To upgrade the existing medical college institutions.

2. Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY)
- It promotes safe motherhood under the National Rural Health Mission (NHM).
- Objective: reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among poor pregnant women. 

3. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK)
- Launched on 7th January 2014 to reach out to 253 million adolescents - male and female, rural and urban, married and unmarried, in and out-of-school adolescents with special focus on marginalized and undeserved groups.- The programme expands the scope of adolescent health programming in India - from being limited to sexual and reproductive health, it now includes in its ambit nutrition, injuries and violence (including gender based violence), non-communicable diseases, mental health and substance misuse. The strength of the program is its health promotion approach.

4. Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram
- Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Aim: to eliminate out of pocket expenses incurred by  pregnant women and on sick new borns, by having access to services at Government health facilities.

5. National Iron Plus Initiative
- Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)
- Aim: to work on the prevention and control of anemia in India.