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SCN News No 05 - Nutrition and School Performance

UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Published in : 1990

Available in : English

The education of children all over the world is being held back by malnutrition. In humanitarian terms, it makes no sense that the children who manage to get to school cannot benefit fully from their education, because they are already malnourished, because they are currently hungry, or because of infection. Nearly 90% of the world's school children will be in developing countries by the year 2000, yet many of these will be physically ill prepared for school, will have poor attention, and will drop out - and nutrition plays a part in all this.

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Themes: Breastfeeding, general, Complementary feeding, general, Emergency, general, Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Micronutrients, general, Nutrition and health/disease, general, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, general, Nutrition assessments and M&E, general, School age nutrition and adolescents , general, Undernutrition, general, Assessments and Monitoring, Demographic, Deworming, HIV / AIDS affected communities, HIV / AIDS affected communities, Hygiene, water and sanitation, International Code of Marketing of BMS, Iodine / IDD, Iron / Anaemia, Malaria, Micronutrient deficiencies, Micronutrient deficiencies, Rapid Assessments, Socio-economic, Stunting, Surveillance systems, Surveillance systems, Underweight, Urban nutrition, Urban nutrition, Vitamin A / Night blindness, Wasting