Dated: 3rd July 2024
A chapter titled “Pale and Frail: Failing Status of Indian Women in Anemia and Nutrition” was published on June 29, 2024, by Springer Nature in the book named “Public Health and Diseases: 
A Geographic Study of Women’s Health, Urban Mortality and Health Policies”. Mayuri Sen and Sangram Mukherjee, both part of the SIGMA Foundation research team, authored the chapter jointly. 
The chapter discusses the disconcerting and lingering issue of low haemoglobin levels in women of childbearing age in India, despite various governmental initiatives in this regard for quite a long time. Consecutive rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data starting from NFHS 2 has been used to analyse the spatiotemporal changes that occurred during the period, and NFHS 5 data as cross-sectional data to examine the determinants of anaemia. Surprisingly, it was also found that despite the faltering haemoglobin levels, the proportion of women of childbearing age in India with Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than normal has consistently increased across each round of NFHS starting from 10.6% during NFHS-2 to 24% according to NFHS-5. This indicates that the problem lies more in the imbalance and lack of dietary diversity among women than the scarcity of food. The Digital Object Identifier for the paper is https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57762-8_7