Shri Kant Singh

Biographic Data

ID	4237211
NAME	Shri Kant Singh
GIVEN NAMES	Shri Kant
FAMILY NAME	Singh
SIGNATURE	SINGH S K
AFFILIATIONS	International Institute for Population Sciences
ORCID	0000-0003-0824-9073
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	30
TOTAL CITATIONS	2
AUTHOR COUNT	30
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	1

The evolving nexus of women’s empowerment and child nutrition in India
Open AccessBharti Singh, Shri Kant SinghARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025
Background: India has one of the highest burdens of child undernutrition, globally. Undernutrition is a persistent challenge despite the country's economic growth. Empowering women is essential in addressing child undernutrition since empowered mothers are more inclined to obtain healthcare, enhance dietary diversity, and make informed choices that benefit their children's health outcomes. Objective: The study aims to investigate the relationship…
Anaemia Among Mother–Child Dyads in India: Trends, Drivers, and Future Projections
Open AccessSarang Pedgaonkar, Trupti Meher et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025
Anaemia among mothers and their children is a widespread public health challenge with profound consequences for individuals and societies. While anaemia has been studied separately in women and children, there remains a literature gap examining anaemia in mother-child dyads, limiting insights on interventions that may simultaneously address anaemia in both groups. Our study examines trends and drivers of anaemia among mother-child dyads (mothers …
Malnutrition among children in India: Exploring the contribution of the integrated child development service scheme
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Gudakesh Gudakesh et al.ARTICLESN Social Sciences2024
Assessing progress on the coverage of interventions in the first 1000 days in India: Role of national programs
Open AccessRasmi Avula, Phuong H Nguyen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024
BACKGROUND: High coverage of nutrition-specific interventions is critical to meet global nutrition targets, and it is imperative to understand how to attain it. We examined trends and inequalities in the coverage of interventions in India and the role of the National Nutrition Mission (NNM) in achieving improvements. METHODS: We conducted trends and equity analysis of 30 interventions using two rounds of National Family Health Survey data (2015-2…
Latent class analysis of chronic disease co-occurrence, clustering and their determinants in India using Study on global AGEing and adult health (Sage) India Wave-2
Open AccessNeha Shri, Saurabh Singh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024
Background: Understanding chronic disease prevalence, patterns, and co-occurrence is pivotal for effective health care planning and disease prevention strategies. In this paper, we aimed to identify the clustering of major non-communicable diseases among Indian adults aged ≥50 years based on their self-reported diagnosed non-communicable disease status and to find the risk factors that heighten the risk of developing the identified disease cluste…
Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and its linkages with undernutrition in India
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Alka Chauhan et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme has been the central focus of the POSHAN Abhiyaan to combat maternal and child malnutrition under the national nutrition mission in India. This paper examined the linkages between utilization of ICDS and underweight among children aged 6-59 months. The study utilized data from two recent rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4 [2015-2016] and NFHS-5 [2019-2021]). Descriptive a…
Key drivers of reversal of trend in childhood anaemia in India: Evidence from Indian demographic and health surveys, 2016–21
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Hemkhothang Lhungdim et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023
These findings may have vital implications for the ongoing Anaemia Mukt Bharat Programme, one of the government's dream projects in India
Changing the Discourse on Caesarean Births in India: Issues emerging from NFHS-5 (2019–2021)
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Aditi Aditi et al.ARTICLESN Social Sciences2022
Exploring the non-communicable disease (NCD) network of multi-morbid individuals in India: A network analysis
Open AccessParul Puri, Shri Kant Singh et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022
Nationally representative evidence discussing the interplay of non-communicable diseases (diseases) are scarce in India. Therefore, the present study aims to fill this research void by providing empirical evidence on disease networking using a large nationally representative cross-sectional sample segregated by gender among older adults in India. The analysis utilized data on 10,606 multimorbid women and 7,912 multimorbid men from the Longitudina…
Effectiveness of modular approach in ensuring data quality in large-scale surveys: Evidence from National Family Health Survey – 4 (2015–2016)
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Santosh Kumar Sharma et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022
This study aims to examine the effect of administration of shorter and longer versions of questionnaires on key indicators such as age displacement, birth displacement, age heaping, and skipping questions on antenatal care (ANC) visits and use of contraceptive methods in India using National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 data. At the individual level, the effect of the adoption of the shorter and longer versions of the questionnaires on the age d…
Inconsistency in prevalence of hypertension based on self-reports and use of standard tests: Implications for large scale surveys
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Santosh Kumar Sharma et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022
The significant deviance of self-reporting of hypertension from the prevalence derived based on standard tests further indicates the need for adopting standard tests in all emerging future large-scale surveys. A back-check survey is recommended to understand and differentiate the excessive false-positive reporting of hypertension among women aged 15-35 years
Asset and consumption gradient of health estimates in India: Implications for survey and public health research
Open AccessSanjay K Mohanty, Shri Kant Singh et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022
The wealth index based on household assets and amenities is been increasingly used to explain economic variations of health outcomes in the developing countries. While the variables used to compute the wealth index are easy to collect and time- and cost-effective, the wealth index tends to have an urban bias, uses arbitrary weighting, does not provide per capita measures and is a poor measure of inequality. We used micro data from two of the larg…
Nature, pattern, and changes in alcohol consumption among men in India: Insights from NFHS-4 and NFHS-5
Shri Kant Singh, Shubham KumarARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Substance…2022
The consumption pattern of alcohol varies between cultures and different communities. Moreover, alcohol consumption pattern depends on age, religion, education, type of drink, and other socio-economic parameters. Alcohol use has reportedly declined in most developed counties, but developing countries still witnessed an increasing trend. The study investigated socio-economic drivers, nature, and patterns of alcohol use among adult men in India. We…
Covariates of Multiplicity of High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Men in India: Evidence from the Latest Indian Demographic and Health Survey
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Santosh Kumar Sharma et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2021
Spatial heterogeneity and major correlates of Unmet Need of family planning among young married women aged 15-24 in India: An Exploratory Study
Open AccessHimani Sharma, Shri Kant Singh et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2021
For young women aged 15 to 24, unintended pregnancies remain very common, reflecting lower contraceptive use. Given the socio-cultural and traditional beliefs and practices, the unmet need for family planning is a crucial indicator for tracking the progress in contraceptive prevalence, ensuring young women’s reproductive and sexual rights. This article aims to analyze spatial heterogeneity in the unmet need for family planning among young women a…
Mapping changes in district level prevalence of childhood stunting in India 1998-2016: An application of small area estimation techniques
Open AccessSwati Srivastava, Hukum Chandra et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2021
The four rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted during 1992-93, 1998-99, 2005-06 and 2015-16 is main source to track the health and development related indicators including nutritional status of children at national and state level in India. Except NFHS-4, first three rounds of NFHS were unable to provides district-level estimates of childhood stunting due to the insufficient sample sizes. The small area estimation (SAE) techniq…
Spatial heterogeneity in the coverage of full immunization among children in India: Exploring the contribution of immunization card
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Deepanjali VishwakarmaARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2021References: 18
Inequality in child undernutrition among urban population in India: A decomposition analysis
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Shobhit Srivastava et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020
All the nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions in urban areas should be prioritized, focusing on urban poor, who are often clustered in low-income slums. Rich-poor inequality in child growth calls out for integration and convergence of nutrition interventions with policy interventions aimed at poverty reduction. There is also a need to expand the scope of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program to provide mass e…
Socio-economic inequality in malnutrition among children in India: An analysis of 640 districts from National Family Health Survey (2015–16)
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Shrikant Singh et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2019
The districts that lied out in a spectrum of developmental diversity are required some specific set of information's that covering socio-economic, demographic and health-related quality of life of people in those backward districts. More generally, policies to avail improved water and sanitation facility to public and female literacy should be continued. It is also important to see that the benefits of both infrastructure and more general economi…
Risky Sexual Behavior and HIV/STI among Injecting Drug Users in India: Findings from Large-Scale Bio-Behavioral Surveys in Nagaland, Manipur and Maharashtra, India
Open AccessSantosh Kumar Sharma, Shri Kant Singh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population and Social…2018
Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) are vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as they are exposed to unsafe practices such as needle sharing and unprotected sex. This study utilized data from surveys conducted in India by Integrated behavioral and Biological assessment (IBBA) Phase 1 (2005-06) and Phase 2 (2009-10) in states having highest HIV/STIs prevalence. The study examines socio-demographic char…
The Reach of Media to Smokers and Smokeless Tobacco Users in India: Evidence from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (Gats)
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Jean J Schensul et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population and Social…2017
This study focuses on the impact of mass media in creating awareness and enhancing efficacy of tobacco control interventions by disseminating knowledge to the public about the harmful effects of tobacco. It examines variations in awareness of tobacco’s health hazards and anti-tobacco campaigns among 69,296 adults aged 15 and above based on gender and tobacco use (smoked or smokeless) and the role of the media in cessation attempts by tobacco user…
Influence of Profession as Risk of STIs in Intimate Partner Relationship in South Asian Countries
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Bhawana Sharma et al.ARTICLESexuality & Culture2017References: 2
Covariates of Multiplicity of Risk Behavior Among Injecting Drug Users in Nepal
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Alankar Malviya et al.ARTICLESexuality & Culture2015
Down-Low”: Overlapping Sexual Risks of Bisexual MSM Influencing Women’s Vulnerability to STI/HIV in Nepal
Open AccessShri Kant Singh, Nidhi Sharma et al.ARTICLESexuality & Culture2013Cited by: 1
Understanding the Factors Affecting the HIV Epidemic in Maharashtra: Application of Proximate Determinants Framework
Open AccessNidhi Sharma, Shri Kant Singh et al.ARTICLESexuality & Culture2012Cited by: 1References: 4