India accounts
for 25 per
cent of the
world's
children
deaths
74.3 %
of Indian children are anaemic.
A foetus is 50 times
more
vulnerable to carcinogenic
chemicals |
More than three million children in the world die each
year from waterborne diseases, and in India, every fifth child under the age of five, dies
due to diarrhoea.
| Almost half of all Indian children under the age
of four are malnourished and 30 % of newborns are significantly underweight |
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Environmental
hazards kills
three million
children under
five every year. |
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Children have higher rates of respiration
and calorie consumption per kilogram of body weight than adults because of their higher
metabolic rate. This factor makes infants and toddlers more vulnerable to inhaled and oral
environmental exposure |
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Lead exposure due
to vehicles accounts for nearly 90% of air-borne lead contamination |
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 A study of 4,000 children, belonging to affluent sections and aged between four
and eighteen in a public school in Delhi found the incidence of overweight reached its
peak in childhood itself. For boys by 12-14 years and in girls by
9-11 years. |
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