How to Protect and Promote the Nutrition of Mothers and Children in Latin America and the Caribbean : Purpose of the Toolkit

This toolkit is the first of its kind to provide information on promoting and protecting the nutritional status of mothers and children in crises and emergencies. Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to major crises and emergencies. This toolkit aims to improve the resilience of the most vulnerable in times of intensified nutritional needs, most notably pregnant and lactating mothers as well as children less than two years of age. Its principal objective is to offer countries, when faced with the transition from stable times into and out of crisis, clear guidance on how to safeguard the nutritional status of mothers and children during times of stability, crisis, and emergency. The principal objective of this toolkit is to offer clear guidance, in a single-source compilation, that will assist countries in safeguarding the nutritional status of mothers and children during times of stability, crisis, and emergency. It aims to inform changes in countries' policies and practices and to guide their attempts to deal with persistently high prevalence rates of malnutrition among their poorest, least educated, and indigenous populations. This toolkit has been crafted so that it can be readily used by non-nutrition specialists.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2011
Subjects:	ACCESS TO FOOD, ACUTE MALNUTRITION, ADEQUATE NUTRITION, AGED, AGRICULTURAL POLICIES, ANEMIA, ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR, ARI, ARMED CONFLICT, BABY, BREASTFEEDING, CARIBBEAN REGION, CHILD DEATHS, CHILD FEEDING, CHILD GROWTH, CHILD HEALTH, CHILD MALNUTRITION, CHILD NUTRITION, CHRONIC UNDERNUTRITION, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, COMMUNITY HEALTH, COPING MECHANISMS, CRIME, CYCLE OF POVERTY, DECISION MAKING, DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS, DEVELOPMENT POLICIES, DIARRHEA, DIET, DIETARY DIVERSITY, DIETS, DISASTERS, EARTHQUAKE, ECONOMIC CHANGE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY, ECONOMIC PROGRESS, ECONOMIC SHOCKS, EMERGENCIES, EMERGENCY RELIEF, EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, FAMILIES, FAMINE, FAMINE EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS, FATS, FOLIC ACID, FOOD AVAILABILITY, FOOD INSECURITY, FOOD INTAKE, FOOD POLICY, FOOD PRICES, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOOD SECURITY, FORTIFIED FOODS, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, GROSS NATIONAL INCOME, GROWTH MONITORING, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH STATUS, HIV/AIDS, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS, HUNGER, HYGIENE, IDD, ILLNESS, IMMUNODEFICIENCY, IMR, INADEQUATE FOOD, INADEQUATE FOOD INTAKE, INCOME GROWTH, INCOME ON FOOD, INDIGENOUS GROUPS, INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS, INFANT, INFANT FEEDING, INFANT FORMULA, INFANT MORTALITY, INFANT MORTALITY RATE, INFECTION, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL POLICY, INTERVENTION, IODINE, IODINE-DEFICIENCY, IRON, LABOR MARKET, LACTATING MOTHERS, LAND TENURE, LBW, LIMITED NATIONAL RESOURCES, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, MALARIA, MALNOURISHED CHILDREN, MALNUTRITION, MEASLES, MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES, MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION, MICRONUTRIENTS, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL, MINISTRY OF HEALTH, MORTALITY, MOTHER, MOTHER-TO-CHILD, MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION, NATIONAL POLICIES, NATURAL DISASTERS, NATURAL RESOURCES, NEWBORN, NUTRIENT, NUTRIENT INTAKE, NUTRITION, NUTRITION IN EMERGENCIES, NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS, NUTRITION NEEDS, NUTRITION POLICIES, NUTRITIONAL NEEDS, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OBESITY, ORAL REHYDRATION SALTS, ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION, ORS, OVERNUTRITION, POLICY GUIDANCE, POLICY MAKERS, POLITICAL INSTABILITY, POOR COUNTRIES, POOR FAMILIES, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, PREGNANT WOMEN, PROGRESS, PURCHASING POWER, REFUGEES, RESPECT, RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS, SAFETY NET, SAFETY NET PROGRAMS, SAFETY NETS, SALT IODIZATION, SANITATION, SCHOOLING, SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, SOCIAL CHANGE, SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES, SOCIAL NETWORKS, SOCIAL POLICIES, SOCIAL PROTECTION, STUNTING, SUBREGIONS, SUGARS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, UNDER 5 MORTALITY, UNDER 5 MORTALITY RATE, UNDERNUTRITION, UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES, URBANIZATION, VIOLENCE, VITAMIN, VITAMIN A, VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY, VULNERABILITY, VULNERABLE GROUPS, VULNERABLE GROUPS IN SOCIETY, VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS, VULNERABLE PEOPLE, VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, VULNERABLE REGIONS, WASTING, WORKERS, WORKFORCE, WORLD FOOD PROGRAM, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, YOUNG CHILD, YOUNG CHILD NUTRITION, YOUNG CHILDREN,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/447311468266161601/How-to-protect-and-promote-the-nutrition-of-mothers-and-children-purpose-of-the-toolkit http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26794
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