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An Investment Framework for Nutrition : Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding and Wasting / Meera Shekar.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Shekar, Meera.
- Series:
- Other papers
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anemia.
- Breastfeeding.
- Early Child and Children's Health.
- Health Economics & Finance.
- Health Monitoring & Evaluation.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Malnutrition.
- Nutrition.
- Stunting.
- Local Subjects:
- Anemia.
- Breastfeeding.
- Early Child and Children's Health.
- Health Economics & Finance.
- Health Monitoring & Evaluation.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Malnutrition.
- Nutrition.
- Stunting.
- Other Title:
- Investment Framework for Nutrition
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In 2015, 159 million children under the age of five were chronically malnourished or stunted, underscoring a massive global health and economic development challenge (UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank 2015). In 2012-in an effort to rally the international community around improving nutrition-the 176 members of the World Health Assembly endorsed the first-ever global nutrition targets, focusing on six areas: stunting, anemia, low birthweight, childhood overweight, breastfeeding, and wasting. These targets aim to boost investments in cost-effective interventions, spearhead better implementation practices, and catalyze progress toward decreasing malnutrition. Some of the targets (stunting and wasting) are further enshrined within the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), which commits to ending malnutrition in all its forms by the year 2030.
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