Consider the following statements in the context of interventions being undertaken under Anaemia Mukt Bharat Strategy : 1. It provides prophylactic calcium supplementation for pre-school children, adolescents and pregnant women. 2. It runs a campaign for delayed cord clamping at the time of childbirth. 3. It provides for periodic deworming to children and adolescents. 4. It addresses non-nutritional causes of anaemia in endemic pockets with special focus on malaria, hemoglobinopathies and fluorosis. How many of the statements given above are correct?

Notes a high burden of anaemia among adolescent girls and stresses adolescents' increased nutritional needs.

A student could infer that national anaemia programmes target adolescents and therefore check whether such programmes include micronutrient (including calcium) prophylaxis for this group.

Identifies calcium as an important nutrient (milk, curd, paneer) required for growth and bone development in adolescents.

Use this nutritional role to evaluate whether a public health strategy aiming to improve adolescent nutrition might plausibly include calcium supplementation alongside iron/folate.

States that pregnant and nursing mothers and children under 5 form a large food-insecure group at risk of malnutrition.

A student can reason that national interventions aiming to reduce maternal/child malnutrition could include supplementation programmes (so check policy details for calcium provision).

Describes targeted benefits delivered through Aanganwadi for pregnant/lactating women and young children (meals, cash instalments).

Since Aanganwadi is a platform for maternal/child nutrition services, one could look there for operational details (e.g., whether calcium prophylaxis is supplied via this network under Anaemia Mukt Bharat).

Mentions Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan providing systematic antenatal care to pregnant women.

A student might check antenatal-care protocols under this scheme and related national anaemia initiatives to see if calcium prophylaxis for pregnant women is included.

Describes Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan as a national programme explicitly targeting reduction of maternal and infant mortality and improving antenatal/care and safe deliveries.

A student could check whether Anaemia Mukt Bharat (also a maternal/child health–oriented strategy) lists intrapartum practices (like delayed cord clamping) among safe delivery interventions in its detailed guidelines.

Notes that multiple national health programmes were launched/merged (e.g., National Health Policy, Ayushman Bharat) indicating the government uses national programmes to address public-health priorities.

Using this pattern, one could look in central programme documents (Anaemia Mukt Bharat policy/guidelines) to see whether they incorporate specific childbirth practices or leave them to maternal health missions.

Gives an example (Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan) of a focused national campaign addressing a specific health/behaviour issue.

By analogy, a student could seek whether Anaemia Mukt Bharat similarly runs targeted behavioural/clinical campaigns (e.g., for cord-clamping timing) as part of its interventions.

States that India's health campaigns (e.g., for TB, malnutrition) have been used to influence practice and policy, showing national campaigns can include clinical practice changes.

A student might therefore test if Anaemia Mukt Bharat has issued campaign materials or clinical guidance aimed at changing delivery-room practices like delayed cord clamping.

Notes a high burden of anaemia among adolescents and that adolescent nutrition requirements are higher, implying programmes targeting anaemia would focus on this age group.

A student could combine this with the fact that intestinal helminths contribute to anaemia in children/adolescents to infer that anaemia control strategies might include deworming and then check the strategy text for deworming actions.

Asks how to manage iron deficiency and to 'find out about government schemes aimed to prevent such deficiencies', indicating government schemes address iron-deficiency anaemia.

One could extend this by checking whether government anaemia schemes bundle allied interventions (e.g., deworming) that support iron status.

Describes Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) and other adolescent health initiatives, showing the government runs adolescent-focused health programmes that could coordinate with anaemia efforts.

A student might reason that Anaemia Mukt Bharat could coordinate with RKSK for school/ adolescent interventions such as periodic deworming, then verify in programme guidelines.

Discusses Swachh Bharat Mission and ongoing open defecation in slums — poor sanitation is a risk factor for soil-transmitted helminth infections which can cause or worsen anaemia.

Using the link between sanitation, helminthiasis, and anaemia, a student could infer that anaemia-control strategies may logically include deworming in high-risk settings and then look for that element in the strategy.

Shows that community sanitation campaigns reduced infections and improved child health, reinforcing the causal link between sanitation and parasitic infections affecting nutrition/anaemia.

A student could use this to support checking whether Anaemia Mukt Bharat pairs nutritional/iron interventions with infection-control measures like deworming.

States that malaria causes anaemia and lists Indian states where malaria is endemic, linking a non-nutritional infectious cause to regional anaemia burden.

A student could combine this with maps of malaria-endemic states and the geographic focus of Anaemia Mukt Bharat to see if the strategy would need to address malaria in those pockets.

Describes malaria's etiology (plasmodium via mosquitoes), reinforcing malaria as a non-nutritional, preventable cause of anaemia.

A student could infer that strategies tackling anaemia in endemic areas might require coordination with vector-control programmes and check whether Anaemia Mukt Bharat mentions such coordination.

Lists collection of hemographic and epidemiological data and explicitly names endemic diseases like fluorosis and malaria as subjects for study in health/environment assessments.

A student could use this pattern to expect public health programmes addressing anaemia to consider endemic non-nutritional causes (e.g., fluorosis) and then verify if Anaemia Mukt Bharat includes such epidemiological or cross-program measures.

Explains that the Government runs an integrated National Vectorborne Disease Control Programme (malaria control) under a separate health mission, implying malaria control is handled by a distinct programme.

A student could check whether Anaemia Mukt Bharat coordinates with or refers to existing vector-borne disease programmes, since standalone anaemia strategies may rely on these for malaria-related causes.

Notes high prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls due to inadequate nutrition, highlighting the distinction between nutritional and non-nutritional drivers of anaemia in program design.

A student could use this rule (programs often target nutritional deficits for adolescents) to question whether Anaemia Mukt Bharat also explicitly includes measures for non-nutritional causes like hemoglobinopathies and fluorosis in endemic pockets.