Nirmala R. Pai ¹, Florence Theophilus ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, Women's Christian College, Madras-6, IN

Abstract

Anaemia exists in many human beings throughout the world, particularly in poorer countries. The World Health Organization has pointed out that "a great deal of ill-health sapping energy and productiveness in many countries and causing tragedies in child-birth is due to anaemia." Nutritional anaemias are known to be widely prevalent in the Indian sub-continent, and of these, iron deficiency anaemia appears to be the most common.

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