Nearly one in three children under age five in the Philippines is stunted, a key marker of undernutrition. This rate is … of stunting in the Philippines, using data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. Potential drivers are analyzed … 20 percent. Similarly, providing adequate food security and diversity to all Filipino children would reduce stunting by …

importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …; dietary preferences related to religion and ethnicity; nutrition education; and administration of public health and nutrition …

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition-food security; adequate … caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … environment-on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on data …

This paper examines the costs, impacts, and cost-effectiveness of scaling up over five years the nutrition …,000 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and almost 90,000 cases years of anemia. Almost 100,000 more children would be exclusively … in the BPHS nutrition interventions …

the nutritional outcomes of children within the same household who were born before and after the program intervention … and 2018, nutrition indicators improved and the percentage of children under age five who were stunted fell from forty … implementing a large-scale multisectoral nutrition program, which expanded to all districts of the country with the World Bank …

El Salvador is in a nutrition transition. In the past 20 years, stunting rates have declined by 25 percent in young … children, while overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions, affecting about 60 percent of reproductive-age (15 to … 49 years) women and increasing among children under five. To accelerate the progress in reducing stunting, anemia, and …

-- How water and sanitation can improve nutrition outcomes -- Achievements in the water and sanitation sector …

In 2015, 159 million children under the age of five were chronically malnourished or stunted, underscoring a massive … 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 …

This paper builds on global experience and Zambia's specific context to identify aneffective nutrition approach along … with costs and benefits of key nutrition interventions. It isintended to help guide the selection of the most cost …-effective interventions as well as strategiesfor scaling these up. The paper considers both relevant "nutrition-specific" interventions …