Childhood stunting: a global perspective Tập 12 Số S1 - Trang 12-26 - 2016
Mercedes de Onís, Francesco Branca
AbstractChildhood 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 an estimated 161 million children worldwide in 2013 falling below −2 SD from the length‐for‐age/height‐for‐age World Health Organization Child Growth Standards median. Man...... hiện toàn bộ Long‐term consequences of stunting in early life Tập 7 Số s3 - Trang 5-18 - 2011
Kathryn G. Dewey, Khadija Begum
AbstractThis review summarizes the impact of stunting, highlights recent research findings, discusses policy and programme implications and identifies research priorities. There is growing evidence of the connections between slow growth in height early in life and impaired health and educational and economic performance later in life. Recent research findings, incl...... hiện toàn bộ The economic rationale for investing in stunting reduction Tập 9 Số S2 - Trang 69-82 - 2013
John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Lawrence Haddad, Susan Horton
AbstractThis paper outlines the economic rationale for investments that reduce stunting. We present a framework that illustrates the functional consequences of stunting in the 1000 days after conception throughout the life cycle: from childhood through to old age. We summarize the key empirical literature around each of the links in the life cycle, highlighting gap...... hiện toàn bộ Complementary feeding practices: Current global and regional estimates Tập 13 Số S2 - 2017
Jessica M. White, France Bégin, Richard Kumapley, Colleen Crittenden Murray, Julia Krasevec
AbstractInsufficient quantities and inadequate quality of complementary foods, together with poor feeding practices, pose a threat to children's health and nutrition. Interventions to improve complementary feeding are critical to reduce all forms of malnutrition, and access to data to ascertain the status of complementary feeding practices is essential for efforts ...... hiện toàn bộ Maternal common mental disorder and infant growth – a cross‐sectional study from Malawi Tập 4 Số 3 - Trang 209-219 - 2008
Robert C. Stewart, Eric Umar, Felix Kauye, James Bunn, Maclean Vokhiwa, Margaret Fitzgerald, Barbara Tomenson, Atıf Rahman, Francis Creed
AbstractThe objective of the study was to investigate the association between maternal common mental disorder (CMD) and infant growth in rural Malawi. A cross‐sectional study was conducted at a district hospital child health clinic. Participants were consecutive infants due for measles vaccination, and their mothers.Mean infant weight‐for‐age and l...... hiện toàn bộ