[HTML][HTML] Stunting in childhood: an overview of global burden, trends, determinants, and drivers of decline

T Vaivada, N Akseer, S Akseer, A Somaskandan… - The American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Progress has been made worldwide in reducing chronic undernutrition and
rates of linear growth stunting in children under 5 y of age, although rates still remain high in …

Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

MM Black, SP Walker, LCH Fernald, CT Andersen… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

The COVID-19 crisis will exacerbate maternal and child undernutrition and child mortality in low-and middle-income countries

S Osendarp, JK Akuoku, RE Black, D Headey, M Ruel… - Nature food, 2021 - nature.com
The economic crisis and food and health system disruptions related to the COVID-19
pandemic threaten to exacerbate undernutrition in low-and middle-income countries …

Childhood stunting: a global perspective

M De Onis, F Branca - Maternal & child nutrition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Childhood stunting is the best overall indicator of children's well‐being and an accurate
reflection of social inequalities. Stunting is the most prevalent form of child malnutrition with …

Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development

LM Richter, B Daelmans, J Lombardi, J Heymann… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Building on long-term benefits of early intervention (Paper 2 of this Series) and increasing
commitment to early childhood development (Paper 1 of this Series), scaled up support for …

[LIBRO][B] The economics of poverty: History, measurement, and policy

M Ravallion - 2015 - books.google.com
There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

The stunting syndrome in develo** countries

AJ Prendergast, JH Humphrey - Paediatrics and international child …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Linear growth failure is the most common form of undernutrition globally. With an estimated
165 million children below 5 years of age affected, stunting has been identified as a major …

[PDF][PDF] Global nutrition targets 2025: Stunting policy brief

World Health Organization - 2014 - apps.who.int
Childhood stunting is one of the most significant impediments to human development,
globally affecting approximately 162 million children under the age of 5 years. Stunting, or …

Contextualising complementary feeding in a broader framework for stunting prevention

CP Stewart, L Iannotti, KG Dewey… - Maternal & child …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
An estimated 165 million children are stunted due to the combined effects of poor nutrition,
repeated infection and inadequate psychosocial stimulation. The complementary feeding …

Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding

A Bennett, X Basurto, J Virdin, X Lin, SJ Betances… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The international development community is off-track from meeting targets for alleviating
global malnutrition. Meanwhile, there is growing consensus across scientific disciplines that …