Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development : A Strategy for Large Scale Action

Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first Millennium Development Goals-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choi...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Publication
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES AGED AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES AGRICULTURE ANEMIA BASIC HEALTH BASIC HEALTH SERVICES BIRTH SPACING BLINDNESS BREASTFEEDING BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION CDD CHILD CARE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS CHILD DEATHS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD GROWTH CHILD HEALTH SERVICES CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD MORTALITY CHILD SURVIVAL CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES COMMUNICABLE DISEASES COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS CONGENITAL ANOMALIES CONTAGIOUS DISEASES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DIABETES DIARRHEA DIET DIETARY ENERGY DIETARY ENERGY SUPPLY DIETS DISEASES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY ESSENTIAL NUTRITION ACTIONS EXTREME POVERTY FAMILIES FAMINE FOOD AID FOOD INSECURITY FOOD POLICIES FOOD POLICY FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD SECURITY FOOD SUMMIT GAMBIA GOITER GROWTH GROWTH PROMOTION HEALTH CARE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RIGHTS HUNGER HYGIENE HYPOTHYROIDISM IDD IMCI IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNIZATION INADEQUATE FOOD INADEQUATE FOOD INTAKE INCOME GROWTH INCOME POVERTY INCOME QUINTILE INFANT FEEDING INFANTS INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERVENTION IODINE IODINE DEFICIENCY IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS IODINE SUPPLEMENTATION IRON IRON DEFICIENCY LOW BIRTHWEIGHT MALARIA MALNOURISHED CHILDREN MALNUTRITION MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES MICRONUTRIENT FORTIFICATION MICRONUTRIENT MALNUTRITION MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION MICRONUTRIENTS MIGRATION MILK MONITORING MORBIDITY MORTALITY NURSING NUTRITION NUTRITION EDUCATION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITION POLICIES NUTRITION PROGRAMS NUTRITION SERVICES NUTRITION STATUS OBESITY PARASITES PEM PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PHYSICAL GROWTH POOR COUNTRIES POOR HEALTH POOR NUTRITION POOR PEOPLE POORER PEOPLE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION EFFORTS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS POVERTY TARGET PREGNANCY PREGNANT WOMEN PRENATAL CARE PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION PRODUCTIVITY PROGNOSIS PROTEIN RURAL LIVELIHOODS SAFETY NET SAFETY NET PROGRAMS SANITATION SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS SCHOOLING SERIOUS MALNUTRITION SEVERE MALNUTRITION SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES SNACKS SOCIAL PROTECTION STARVATION STUNTED CHILDREN STUNTING SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE POVERTY REDUCTION THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO UNDERNUTRITION UNDERWEIGHT CHILDREN VEGETABLES VITAMIN A VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION VITAMINS VULNERABLE GROUPS WASTING WORLD FOOD PROGRAM
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/6501911/repositioning-nutrition-central-development-strategy-large-scale-action http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7409

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Summary:	Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first Millennium Development Goals-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choice is now between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to development. Underweight prevalence among children is the key indicator for measuring progress on non-income poverty and malnutrition remains the world's most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality. Nearly a third of children in the developing world are either underweight or stunted, and more than 30 percent of the developing world's population suffers from micronutrient deficiencies. There are also new dimensions to malnutrition. The epidemic of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases is spreading to the developing world and malnutrition is also linked to the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic. This report makes the case for development partners and developing countries to focus on nutrition, and to fund nutrition investments much more heavily than has been the case in the past. This case is based on evidence that such programs are excellent economic investments and essential for faster progress in reducing poverty; and on program experience showing that they can improve nutrition much faster than relying on economic growth alone. The report sets out a global strategy for stepped-up action in nutrition, for discussion in the international development community.

Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development : A Strategy for Large Scale Action

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