The double burden of malnutrition in Asia : causes, consequences, and solutions / Stuart Gillespie, Lawrence J. Haddad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillespie, Stuart (Stuart R.)

Contributor:

Haddad, Lawrence James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malnutrition--Asia.

Malnutrition.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2003.

Summary:

This book is the first comprehensive assessment of nutrition in Asia, a region that has the largest concentration of global malnutrition. It reviews a wide array of nutrition-relevant trends, policies, programmes, challenges and opportunities in Asia.

The simple fact that every third child born is malnourished at birth represents an enormous drain on human and economic development. The pay-off to turning this tide is both immense and immeasurable. In the long-term, sustainable poverty-reducing economic growth will simply not be possible without dealing with malnutrition.

This book describes the main driving forces behind the groundswell of under nutrition. It sheds light on the emerging "double burden" of co-existing underweight and overweight and the linkages between these two different forms of malnutrition.

Contents:

1 Malnutrition in Asia 1

2 Direct Nutrition Action 23

3 Developing Capacity for Nutrition Action 61

4 Indirect Nutrition-Relevant Actions 88

5 Contextual Dynamics 131

6 Financing Nutrition Interventions 166

7 The Way Forward 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-225) and index.

ISBN:

0761997571

076199758X

OCLC:

51264147