Combating malnutrition : time to act / / Stuart Gillespie, Milla McLachlan, Roger Shrimpton, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969733203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, : UNICEF, c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-08602-5; 9786610086023; 0-585-48594-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 165 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm
• Collana: Health, nutrition, and population series
• Altri autori (Persone): GillespieStuart (Stuart R.); McLachlanMilla; ShrimptonRoger
• Disciplina: 363.8/7
• Soggetti: Malnutrition - Prevention; Nutrition policy; Malnutrition - Economic aspects; Poverty
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: At head of title: Human Development Network.; "World Bank-UNICEF Nutrition Assessment."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-158) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; PART I Recommendations from the Assessment; 1 What Is Needed to Eliminate Malnutrition?; 2 Key Findings; 3 A Framework for Improved Strategies; PART II Narrative Themes and Country Case Study Summaries; 4 Narrative Themes; 5 Country Perspectives; Notes; References; Index; Tables; Figures; Boxes
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper illustrates the constraints that have limited action towards improving nutrition in the developing world. The understanding of how best to promote the needed changes in policies, programmes and institutional capacities has grown over the past decade, but remains limited. The international community has systemized its knowledge of what actions are likely to improve nutrition, but less effort has been given to systemizing its knowledge of how to intervene in the sociopolitical processes - from community to national and international levels.; This assessment recommends a five-point programme of action to apply to known solutions with the intensity needed to eliminate ; nutritional deprivation. Each dimension of the programme is an entry point, while local conditions and existing capacity will determine which one is most appropriate in any one context, ultimately all five dimensions need action for maximum impact.; The paper concludes that UNICEF and the World Bank, with their complementary approaches and in partnership with countries and other agencies, should initiate a global effort to jump-start action to eliminate nutritional deprivation once and for all.