Browsing by Author "A. Carlson, Beverley"

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    An assessment of child malnutrition
    (2022) A. Carlson, Beverley; M. Wardlaw, Tessa
    Monitoring the nutritional status of children is a fundamental instrument in pursuing the goal of ending child malnutrition without accurate and up-to date information on the nutritional well-being of children it is almost impossible to gear government policies and national mobilization to the task of ending child malnutrition.At present few countries have information on the nutritional status of their children regularly at their disposal
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    A global regional and country assessment of child malnutrition
    (1990-04) A. Carlson, Beverley; M.Wardlaw, Tessa
    A global assessment of malnutrition in children under five has just been completed in UNICEF based on data available as of January 1990.The analysis is based on nationally representative data from 76 developing countries accounting for 83% of the under-five population of the developing world, excluding China.The data which come from a varicty of sorce refer mainly to national malnutrition prevalence in the 1980s, with half the countries having data for 1985 or later although for a few countries data from the late seventies are used in the absence of more recent estimates