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Bookmark or Share- Malnutrition - World Health Organization (WHO)Wasting in children is associated with a higher risk of death if not treated properly. Stunting is defined as low height-for-age. It is the result of chronic or recurrent undernutrition, usually associated with poverty, poor maternal health and nutrition, frequent illness and/or inappropriate feeding and care in early life.
- Malnutrition in children - World Health Organization (WHO)Wasting - Wasting in children is a symptom of acute undernutrition, usually as a consequence of insufficient food intake or a high incidence of infectious diseases, especially diarrhoea. In turn, wasting impairs the functioning of the immune system and can lead to increased severity and duration of, and susceptibility to, infectious diseases ...
- Fact sheets - Malnutrition - World Health Organization (WHO)Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients. The term malnutrition addresses 3 broad groups of conditions: undernutrition, which includes wasting (low weight-for-height), stunting (low height-for-age) and underweight (low weight-for-age); micronutrient-related malnutrition, which includes micronutrient deficiencies (a lack of ...
- Malnutrition in Children - UNICEF DATANearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to undernutrition; undernutrition puts children at greater risk of dying from common infections, increases the frequency and severity of such infections, and delays recovery.
- WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and ...G: filtered prognostic factors in infants and children with moderate wasting; H: optimal dietary management for moderate wasting: quantity and duration; I: post-exit interventions after recovery from wasting and/or nutritional oedema: questions or interventions for which the GDG did not make a recommendation
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