Children are the future of any country.

Undernourished women tend to deliver low birth weight babies (Karmer, 1987) and to have pregnancy complications (Baird, 1947). Perinatal mortality and prematurity rates were found to be high among short statured women (Barros, 1987).

Complications following illegally induced abortions have been recognised as an important cause of mortality and morbidity in Myanmar.

In India tribals are neglected a lot, discriminated in terms of income distribution and social status.