An Investment Framework for Nutrition : Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding and Wasting / Meera Shekar
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Other papers | World Bank E-Library ArchivePublisher: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2016Description: 1 Online-RessourceDOI: DOI: 10.1596/25292Online resources: 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 2030PPN: PPN: 172487246XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBANo physical items for this record