All hands on deck : reducing stunting through multisectoral efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa /

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the scale of undernutrition is staggering. 58 million children under the age of five are too short for their age (stunted), and 14 million weigh too little for their height (wasted). Poor diets in terms of diversity, quality, and quantity, combined with illness and poor water...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Skoufias, Emmanuel (Autor), Vinha, Katja Pauliina (Autor), Satō, Ryōko, 1947- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: African Development Forum
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : World Bank Publications, [2019]
Colección:Africa development forum.
Temas:
Poor > Nutrition > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Malnutrition > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Children.
Growth Disorders > etiology
Severe Acute Malnutrition
Child
Socioeconomic Factors
Malnutrition > Afrique subsaharienne.
Enfants.
children (people by age group)
Children
Economic history
Malnutrition
Poor > Nutrition
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa South of the Sahara
Afrique subsaharienne > Conditions économiques.
Afrique subsaharienne.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview
  • Introduction and motivation
  • Methodology and data
  • Stunting in Sub-Saharan African countries
  • The underlying determinants of nutrition
  • Stunting and access to the underlying determinants of nutrition
  • An application at the country level: the case of Tanzania
  • Income growth is an essential element of a more effective multisectoral approach
  • How can a multisectoral strategy to reducing stunting produce the desired results?
  • Appendix A: exploring the relationship between height-for-age and the three drivers of nutrition
  • Appendix B: in search of synergies
  • Appendix C: stunting and the three drivers of nutrition: country-specific estimates
  • Appendix D: stunting and the three drivers of nutrition: subpopulation-specific estimates.

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