Relevance:
Poor women in urban areas were shorter, thinner and more anaemic as compared to those from higher wealth categories. Findings show that as per DHS-4, 12.8% of urban poor mothers were short, 20.6% thin, 13.7% overweight, 21.1% obese, 57.4% anaemic and 32.4% had moderate to severe anaemia. Prevalence of short stature was 4.4 percentage points higher among poor mothers compared with all urban mothers, thinness was 8.5 percentage points higher and moderate to severe anaemia was 4 percentage points higher.
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