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 surv...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Authors: World Bank. Human Development Network, UNICEF
Other Authors: Gillespie, Stuart (Stuart R.), McLachlan, Milla, Shrimpton, Roger
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank : UNICEF, ©2003.
Series:Health, nutrition, and population series.
Subjects:
Malnutrition > Prevention.
Nutrition policy.
Malnutrition > Economic aspects.
Poverty.
Poverty > Prevention.
Nutrition Policy
Poverty
Malnutrition > Prévention.
Malnutrition > Aspect économique.
Pauvreté > Prévention.
Politique alimentaire.
Pauvreté.
poverty.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Poverty > Prevention
Malnutrition > Economic aspects
Malnutrition > Prevention
Nutrition policy
Bekämpfung
Mangelernährung
Nahrungsmittelhilfe
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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