Combating Malnutrition: Time to Act

Stuart Gillespie (), Milla McLachlan and Roger Shrimpton

No 15120 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health Monitoring and Evaluation Rural Development-Regional Rural Development Health; Nutrition and Population-Nutrition Early Child and Children's Health Poverty Reduction-Poverty Assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
ISBN: 0-8213-5445-0
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