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Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development : a Strategy for Large Scale Action.
Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDG-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choice is now between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Herndon :
World Bank Publications,
2005.
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| Colección: | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Glossary; Overview; Three Reasons for Intervening to Reduce Malnutrition; What Causes Malnutrition and How Should Governments Intervene?; Next Steps; Notes; 1 Why Invest in Nutrition?; Nutrition and Economics; Nutrition and the Millenium Development Goals; Nutrition and Human Rights; The Know-How for Improving Nutrition; Notes; 2 How Serious Is Malnutrition and Why Does It Happen?; Undernutrition; Low Birthweight; Obesity and Diet-Related Noncommunicable Diseases; Micronutrient Malnutrition.
- What Causes Malnutrition, and Who Is Worst Af fected?Notes; 3 Routes to Better Nutrition; Long and Short Routes to Better Nutrition; Community-Based Growth Promotion Programs; Low-Birthweight Prevention Programs; Micronutrient Programs; Food and Social Protection Programs; Malnutrition and HIV/AIDS Programs; Programs to Tackle Overweight and Diet-Related Noncommunicable Diseases; The Role of Policy; Intentional and Unintentional Nutrition Policies; Notes; 4 Getting to Scale; Managing Nutrition Programs; Organizing Services; Channeling Finance and Coordinating Financiers.
- Strengthening Commitment and CapacityNotes; 5 Accelerating Progress in Nutrition: Next Steps; Uniting Development Partners around a Common Nutrition Agenda; Three Key Operational Challenges to Scaling Up; Where to Focus Actions against Malnutrition; Supporting a Focused Action Research Agenda in Nutrition; The Gaps between Identified Needs and Development Partners' Focus; Next Steps; Notes; Annex 1 : Country Experience with Short Routes to Improving Nutrition; Annex 2: Long Routes to Improving Nutrition; Annex 3: Key Priorities for Action Research in Nutrition: A Proposal; Technical Annexes.
- 1.8 Coverage of nutrition interventions in some large-scale programs3.1 Routes to better nutrition; 3.2 The range of interventions for obesity programs; 3.3 Examples of unintentional nutrition policies; 5.1 Suggested priorities for action research in nutrition; Figures; 1.1 The vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition; 1.2 The income-malnutrition relationship; 1.3 Estimated reduction of underweight prevalence at different economic growth and income-nutrition elasticity scenarios; 1.4 Progress toward the nonincome poverty target.