Nutrition in Lao PDR : Causes, Determinants, and Bottlenecks
Under nutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns about the slow progress in reducing under nutrition have triggered intens...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Vientiane
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26720448/nutrition-lao-pdr-causes-determinants-bottlenecks http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24953 |
| Summary: | Under nutrition levels in Lao PDR remain
among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic
growth and a significant decline in poverty over the past
years. Concerns about the slow progress in reducing under
nutrition have triggered intense policy discussion and
several analytical reports have been produced over the last
few years on the Lao PDR nutrition crisis and its drivers.
This policy note provides an overview of the size, severity,
and key determinants of child under nutrition in Lao PDR and
proposes recommendations for the scale-up of programs and
interventions to strengthen the overall response to under
nutrition in the country. The note draws from a multivariate
analysis of determinants of stunting in addition to
descriptive statistics of nutrition-related behaviors and
outcomes in the country, using recent surveys. These
analyses are complemented with findings from the recent
qualitative-based rapid assessment of nutrition counseling
and growth monitoring conducted during the early months of
2016 in selected provinces, to contextualize findings within
the health sector’s capacity to deliver preventive and
curative nutrition services. |
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