UID:
edocfu_9958092902402883
Format:
xix, 246 pages :
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illustrations, color maps ;
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23 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-30600-9
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9786610306008
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0-8213-6400-6
Series Statement:
Directions in development
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-6399-9
Language:
English
