{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,13]],"date-time":"2026-01-13T15:35:58Z","timestamp":1768318558325,"version":"3.49.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press (CUP)","issue":"2","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,22]],"date-time":"2025-07-22T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1753142400000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/terms"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["cambridge.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Br J Nutr"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,28]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    We investigated the coverage of childhood vitamin A supplementation (VAS) across India from 2005\u20132006 to 2019\u20132021 and further explored how it related to childhood mortality. Data collected from mothers through standard questionnaires during the latest three rounds of the National Family Health Survey (2005\u20132006, 2015\u20132016 and 2019\u20132021) were used. Information on VAS in children aged 9\u201335 months was available from 2015\u20132016 to 2019\u20132021. Information on VAS among children aged 9\u201359 months was available from 2005\u20132006 to 2015\u20132016. Childhood VAS coverage was determined nationally and subnationally (viz. individual states, geography, socio-demographic index and developmental groups). Nearly 40 % eligible children aged 9\u201359 months and 30 % eligible children aged 9\u201335 months missed VAS during recent times. But improvements in VAS coverage were noticed over the years: from 18\u00b76 % (2005\u20132006) to 60\u00b75 % (2015\u20132016) among children aged 9\u201359 months and from 64\u00b75 % (2015\u20132016) to 71\u00b72 % (2019\u20132021) among children aged 9\u201335 months. There were coverage disparities, with Western India documenting the highest and Northeastern India documenting the lowest coverage values. During simple linear regression analysis, childhood mortality between 1 and 5 years of age varied inversely as a function of VAS coverage among children aged 9\u201359 months, with the association being less pronounced in 2015\u20132016 (\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                    = \u22120\u00b747) than in 2005\u20132006 (\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                    = \u22120\u00b740). However, this relationship disappeared when we accounted for potential confounders (viz. childhood immunisation and socio-economic factors) through multivariate analysis, suggesting that the role of VAS in promoting childhood survival may be limited during present times.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0007114525104017","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,22]],"date-time":"2025-07-22T10:19:55Z","timestamp":1753179595000},"page":"161-168","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Coverage of vitamin A supplementation among under-five children in India and its relationship with childhood mortality: insights from multiple rounds of a nationally representative survey from 2005\u20132006 to 2019\u20132021"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"134","author":[{"given":"Trishna","family":"Bora","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"DHR-Model Rural Health Research Unit"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8426-8693","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kaustubh","family":"Bora","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,22]]},"container-title":["British Journal of Nutrition"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S0007114525104017","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,13]],"date-time":"2026-01-13T09:59:01Z","timestamp":1768298341000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S0007114525104017\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,22]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,28]]}},"alternative-id":["S0007114525104017"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/s0007114525104017","relation":{},"ISSN":["0007-1145","1475-2662"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0007-1145","type":"print"},{"value":"1475-2662","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,22]]},"assertion":[{"value":"\u00a9 The Author(s), 2025. 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