Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Glossary; Overview; Three Reasons for Intervening to Reduce Malnutrition; What Causes Malnutrition and How Should Governments Intervene?; Next Steps; Notes; 1 Why Invest in Nutrition?; Nutrition and Economics; Nutrition and the Millenium Development Goals; Nutrition and Human Rights; The Know-How for Improving Nutrition; Notes; 2 How Serious Is Malnutrition and Why Does It Happen?; Undernutrition; Low Birthweight; Obesity and Diet-Related Noncommunicable Diseases; Micronutrient Malnutrition
What Causes Malnutrition, and Who Is Worst Af fected?Notes; 3 Routes to Better Nutrition; Long and Short Routes to Better Nutrition; Community-Based Growth Promotion Programs; Low-Birthweight Prevention Programs; Micronutrient Programs; Food and Social Protection Programs; Malnutrition and HIV/AIDS Programs; Programs to Tackle Overweight and Diet-Related Noncommunicable Diseases; The Role of Policy; Intentional and Unintentional Nutrition Policies; Notes; 4 Getting to Scale; Managing Nutrition Programs; Organizing Services; Channeling Finance and Coordinating Financiers
Strengthening Commitment and CapacityNotes; 5 Accelerating Progress in Nutrition: Next Steps; Uniting Development Partners around a Common Nutrition Agenda; Three Key Operational Challenges to Scaling Up; Where to Focus Actions against Malnutrition; Supporting a Focused Action Research Agenda in Nutrition; The Gaps between Identified Needs and Development Partners' Focus; Next Steps; Notes; Annex 1 : Country Experience with Short Routes to Improving Nutrition; Annex 2: Long Routes to Improving Nutrition; Annex 3: Key Priorities for Action Research in Nutrition: A Proposal; Technical Annexes
1.8 Coverage of nutrition interventions in some large-scale programs3.1 Routes to better nutrition; 3.2 The range of interventions for obesity programs; 3.3 Examples of unintentional nutrition policies; 5.1 Suggested priorities for action research in nutrition; Figures; 1.1 The vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition; 1.2 The income-malnutrition relationship; 1.3 Estimated reduction of underweight prevalence at different economic growth and income-nutrition elasticity scenarios; 1.4 Progress toward the nonincome poverty target
Summary
Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDG-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choice is now between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to development. Underweight prevalence among children is the key indicator for measuring progress on non-income poverty and malnutrition remains the world's most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality. Nearly a third of children in the developing world are either
Bibliography
ReferencesIndex; Tables; 1.1 The benefit-cost ratios for nutrition programs; 1.2 Annual unit costs of nutrition programs; 1.3 Cost of nutrition interventions () ; 1.4 Reduction of the fraction of children underweight in Tanzania under different income growth and nutrition intervention coverage scenarios (%) ; 1.5 Prevalence of underweight and anemia in Indian children by income quintiles; 1.6 How investing in nutrition is critical to achieving the MDGs; 1.7 The Copenhagen Consensus ranks the provision of micronutrients as a top investment
Notes
1.5 Progress toward the nonincome poverty target (nutrition MDG)
