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 …

More than 20 percent of children under the age of 5 in Tajikistan are stunted. A large literature finds that stunting …

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 …

Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early … development. Yet, less work has documented the joint influences of parenting and nutrition status on child development among …

together account for 90 percent of the world's stunted children. The first calculation asks how much lower a country's per …. The second calculation estimates the economic value and the costs associated with scaling up a package of nutrition … 10 nutrition interventions for which data are available on the effects and costs. The estimated rate-of-return from …

individual welfare and particularly child nutrition status. This paper reviews the evidence on the effect of covariate shocks on … child nutrition status in low- and middle-income countries, the pathways through which the effect operates, and the … relationship between the timing of a child's exposure to a covariate shock and the effect on child nutrition status. The paper also …

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