Global Nutrition Targets 2025: Stunting Policy Brief

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Abstract: Childhood stunting is one of the most significant impediments to human development, globally affecting approximately 162 million children under the age of 5 years. If current trends continue, projections indicate that 127 million children under 5 years will be stunted in 2025. Therefore, further investment and action are necessary to attain the 2025 World Health Assembly target of reducing that number to 100 million.

Keywords: nutrition; stunting; maternal; infant and young child nutrition; nutrition; maternal; infant and young child nutrition; wasting; acute malnutrition; childhood wasting; nutrition interventions; nutrition-sensitive interventions; child mortality and morbidity; micronutrient deficiencies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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