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Update on the Nutrition Situation - Recent Trends in Nutrition in 33 Countries

UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Published in : 1989

Available in : English

The report aims to describe recent trends in nutrition and certain potential determining factors, country-by-country. The approach is unavoidably ad hoc, due to the variable availability of data. Selected indicators of likely determinants of year-to-year change are emphasized, especially related to economic stress. Such factors are thought to be having significant effects now, and protective measures are often needed. At the same time, structural adjustment programmes may provide important opportunities both for direct intervention for the vulnerable, and for moulding longer-term policies for sustained improvement. The information here, showing associations between economic stress and nutrition, is intended to be useful in considering measures to protect nutrition during adjustment and recovery.

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Themes: Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Nutrition and food systems, general, Nutrition assessments and M&E, general, Undernutrition, general, Food chain, food production and processing, Maternal undernutrition / LBW, Socio-economic, Underweight

Life-cycle focus: Infancy, Pre-school age, School age

Resource types: Assessments, surveys and indicators, Reports