Repositioning nutrition as central to development : a strategy for large scale action / / [produced by a team led by Meera Shekar, with Richard Heaver and Yi-Kyoung Lee]
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| Titolo: |
Repositioning nutrition as central to development : a strategy for large scale action / / [produced by a team led by Meera Shekar, with Richard Heaver and Yi-Kyoung Lee]
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2006] |
| copyright 2006 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | xix, 246 pages : illustrations, color maps ; ; 23 cm |
| Disciplina: | 363.8/56 |
| Soggetto topico: | Economic assistance - Developing countries |
| Malnutrition - Developing countries | |
| Nutrition - Government policy - Developing countries | |
| Poverty - Developing countries | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Developing countries Economic conditions |
| Altri autori: |
ShekarMeera
HeaverRichard <1952->
LeeYi-Kyoung
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Glossary; Overview; Maps; 1 Why Invest in Nutrition?; Figures; Tables; Boxes; 2 How Serious Is Malnutrition and Why Does It Happen?; 3 Routes to Better Nutrition; 4 Getting to Scale; 5 Accelerating Progress in Nutrition: Next Steps; Annex 1 : Country Experience with Short Routes to Improving Nutrition; Annex 2: Long Routes to Improving Nutrition; Annex 3: Key Priorities for Action Research in Nutrition: A Proposal; Technical Annexes; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDG-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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Repositioning nutrition as central to development |
| ISBN: | 1-280-30600-9 |
| 9786610306008 | |
| 0-8213-6400-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783454403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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