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Postgraduate education in nutrition in south Asia: a huge mismatch between investments and needs
BMC Medicine, 2014Despite decades of nutrition advocacy and programming, the nutrition situation in South Asian countries is alarming. We assume that modern training in nutrition at the post graduate level is an important contributor to building the capacity of individuals to think and act effectively when combating undernutrition.DocumentGlobal nutrition report: Actions and accountability to accelerate the world's progress on nutrition
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014Malnutrition affects one in two people on the planet. Of these, 165 million children under the age of five are estimated to be stunted (i.e. low height for age). Two billion people are estimated to be deficient in one or more micronutrients. Nearly 1.5 billion people are estimated to be overweight and over 500 million to be obese.DocumentInfant feeding practices in the Peruvian Amazon: implications for programs to improve feeding
Pan American Health Organization, 2014The objective of this study is to characterize feeding practices in a community in the Peruvian Amazon and to consider how this information could be used to strengthen programmes and policies designed to improve nutrition and reduce child malnutrition in vulnerable communities.OrganisationAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
he African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine (PHCFM) welcomes submissions that encourages scholarly exchange between family medicine and primary health care resDocumentOverweight and obesity profiles in Niger Delta Region, Nigeria
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2014Overweight and obesity are global public health problems because of their effect on individuals, families and communities. The objective of this study was to describe the profile of overweight and obesity amongst adult outpatients in Uyo in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.DocumentTechnical briefing paper: The relationship between wasting and stunting, policy, programming and research implications
Emergency Nutrition Network, 2014This technical briefing paper is a narrative review of the available literature on the relationship between wasting and stunting. The paper is organised into seven sections:DocumentThe right ingredients: the need to invest in child nutrition
United Nations Children's Fund, 2013Malnutrition is one of the great iniquities and social injustices of our age. Every minute of every day, four children die because of malnutrition. Of those children that survive, one in four are stunted, their physical and mental growth permanently damaged by the lack of nutritious food.DocumentAddressing Malnutrition Multisectorally: What have we learned from recent international experience?
United Nations Children's Fund, 2013This publication is a compilation of three major case studies from Peru, Brazil and Bangladesh, but also a historical review of multisectoral nutrition activities in several other countries around the world.OrganisationMaternal & Child Nutrition
Maternal & Child Nutrition addresses fundamental aspects of nutrition and its outcomes in women and their children, both in early and later life, and keeps its audience fully informed about new inDocumentThe World Health Organization's global target for reducing childhood stunting by 2025: rationale and proposed actions
Maternal & Child Nutrition, 2013In 2012, the World Health Organization adopted a resolution on maternal, infant and young child nutrition that included a global target to reduce by 40% the number of stunted under-five children by 2025. The target was based on analyses of time series data from 148 countries and national success stories in tackling undernutrition.Pages