Combating Malnutrition : Time to Act

Nutrition has been sidelined for too long. Reducing malnutrition is central to reducing poverty. Malnutrition is implicated in half of all child deaths, and causes much illness and cognitive underdevelopment. As the growing evidence demonstrates, fetal and young children malnutrition, threatens survival, growth, and development in childhood, and, it increases the risk of chronic diseases in later life. The Millennium Development Goals cannot be reached without significant efforts to eliminate malnutrition. The book looks at ways to combat malnutrition, by positioning nutrition directly on the poverty and human development policy agenda, to ensure large-scale nutrition actions, and develop capacity to address malnutrition. It provides key findings on the nutritional status, and the broad consensus on what needs to be done, through the analyses of the evolution of policy narratives, country case studies, and workshops, that are behind the headlines, in order to show how policy changes in nutrition happen, what influences these processes, and, what lessons can be learned for the future.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Gillespie, Stuart, McLachlan, Milla, Shrimpton, Roger
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank and UNICEF 2003
Subjects:	MALNUTRITION, MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN, POVERTY REDUCTION, CHILD MORTALITY, CHILD NUTRITION, DISEASE BURDEN, DISEASE COMPLICATIONS & SEQUELAE, UNDERDEVELOPMENT, CHRONIC DISEASES, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, NUTRITION POLICY, NUTRITION PROGRAMS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, POLICY FORMATION, CONSENSUS APPROACH, CASE STUDIES ADOLESCENTS, ALLIANCES, ANALYTICAL WORK, ANEMIA, ASSESSMENT STUDY, BREASTFEEDING, BROAD CONSENSUS, CASE STUDIES, CHILD DEATHS, CHILD MALNUTRITION, CHILD SURVIVAL, CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK, COUNTRY CASE STUDY, COUNTRY LEVEL, DECENTRALIZATION, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRY, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, DEVELOPMENT NETWORK, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DIETARY DIVERSIFICATION, DISEASES, ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY, ECONOMIC STRUCTURE, EDUCATION, EXPENDITURE INFORMATION, EXTERNAL EXPERTS, EXTREME POVERTY, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, FOOD FORTIFICATION, FOOD POLICY, FOOD POLICY RESEARCH, FOOD SECURITY, GIRLS, HEALTH, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH PROBLEM, HEALTH SERVICES, HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY, HOUSEHOLDS, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUNGER, INFANT FEEDING, INFANT GROWTH, INFANTS, INFECTION, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, INSTITUTIONAL MEANS, INSTITUTIONALIZATION, IODINE, IODINE DEFICIENCY, IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS, IRON, IRON DEFICIENCY, IRON SUPPLEMENTS, LOCAL CONDITIONS, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, LOCAL REALITIES, LONG TERM, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, MALNUTRITION RATES, MATERNAL NUTRITION, MEDIA, MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES, MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY, MICRONUTRIENT INTERVENTIONS, MICRONUTRIENTS, MORTALITY, MOTHERS, NATIONAL LEVELS, NATIONAL NUTRITION PLANS, NATIONAL POVERTY, NATIONAL POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES, NUTRITION INDICATORS, NUTRITION POLICIES, NUTRITION PROBLEMS, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, NUTRITIONISTS, PARENTS, PARTNERSHIP, PERSONALITY, POLICY CHANGE, POLICY DEVELOPMENT, POLICY PROCESS, POLICY PROCESSES, POLITICAL COMMITMENT, POOR NUTRITION, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, POVERTY TRENDS, PREGNANCY, PREGNANT WOMEN, PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PROJECT PLAN, PROTEIN, PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC POLICY, QUALITY CONTROL, REDUCING POVERTY, RESEARCH INSTITUTE, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL SECTORS, SOCIAL SERVICES, STUNTING, UNDERWEIGHT CHILDREN, VITAMIN A, VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY, VULNERABLE GROUPS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/07/2489630/combating-malnutrition-time-act https://hdl.handle.net/10986/15120
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!