An Investment Framework for Nutrition: Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding and Wasting

In 2015, 159 million children under the age of five were chronically malnourished or stunted, underscoring a massive global health and economic development challenge (UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank 2015). In 2012-in an effort to rally the international community around improving nutrition-the 176 membe...

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1. Verfasser: Shekar, Meera (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2016
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Zusammenfassung:In 2015, 159 million children under the age of five were chronically malnourished or stunted, underscoring a massive global health and economic development challenge (UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank 2015). In 2012-in an effort to rally the international community around improving nutrition-the 176 members of the World Health Assembly endorsed the first-ever global nutrition targets, focusing on six areas: stunting, anemia, low birthweight, childhood overweight, breastfeeding, and wasting. These targets aim to boost investments in cost-effective interventions, spearhead better implementation practices, and catalyze progress toward decreasing malnutrition. Some of the targets (stunting and wasting) are further enshrined within the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), which commits to ending malnutrition in all its forms by the year 2030
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DOI:10.1596/25292