Combating malnutrition: time to act

by Gillespie, Stuart, (Stuart R.) McLachlan, Milla Shrimpton, Roger

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Title Statements

Full title :Combating malnutrition : time to act / Stuart Gillespie, Milla McLachlan, Roger Shrimpton, editors.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):UNICEF, World Bank
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2003.

Notes

At head of title: Human Development Network.

"World Bank-UNICEF Nutrition Assessment."

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 165 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0585485941, 9780585485942, 9780821354452, 0821354450, 1280086025, 9781280086021, 9786610086023, 6610086028
oclc:ocm53976948
LC Classification:RA645.N87
Dewey Decimal:614.5939

Preface and Acknowledgments -- PART I Recommendations from the Assessment -- 1 What Is Needed to Eliminate Malnutrition? -- 2 Key Findings -- 3 A Framework for Improved Strategies -- PART II Narrative Themes and Country Case Study Summaries -- 4 Narrative Themes -- 5 Country Perspectives -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Tables -- Figures -- Boxes.

Subjects

Bekämpfung Malnutrition -- Aspect économique Malnutrition -- Economic aspects Malnutrition -- Prevention Mangelernährung MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine MEDICAL -- Public Health Nahrungsmittelhilfe Nutrition Policy Pauvreté Pauvreté -- Prévention Politique alimentaire Poverty Poverty -- Prevention