The prevalence of child undernutrition in India is among the highest in the world, nearly double that of Sub-Saharan Africa, with dire consequences for morbidity, mortality, productivity and economic growth. Drawing on qualitative studies and quantitative evidence from large household surveys, this book explores the dimensions of child undernutrition in India and examines the effectiveness of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, India's main early child development intervention, in addressing it.Although levels of undernutrition in India declined modestly during the 1990s, the reductions lagged behind those achieved by other countries with similar economic growth. Nutritional inequalities across different states and socioeconomic and demographic groups remain large.Although the ICDS program appears to be well-designed and well-placed to address the multi-dimensional causes of malnutrition in India, several problems exist that prevent it from reaching its potential. The book concludes with a discussion of a number of concrete actions that can be taken to bridge the gap between the policy intentions of ICDS and its actual implementation.

India's Undernourished Children: A Call for Reform and Action (Health, Nutrition and Population Series)

Shekar, Meera

Bredenkamp, Caryn

Lee, Yi-Kyoung

Gragnolati, Michele

Gupta, Monica Das

Business & Money

World Bank Publications

Action against malnutrition is needed more than ever. An additional US$10.3 billion a year is required from national and international public resources to successfully attack undernutrition worldwide. This would benefit more than 360 million children in the 36 countries with the highest burden of undernutrition―home to 90 percent of the stunted children globally. Since early childhood offers a special window of opportunity to improve nutrition, the bulk of the investment needs to be targeted between pre-pregnancy until two years of age.'Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost?' notes that investment will yield high returns through thriving children, healthier families, and more productive workers. This investment is essential to make progress on the nutrition and child mortality Millennium Development Goals and to protect critical human capital in developing economies. The human and financial costs of further neglect will be high.This call for greater investment in nutrition comes at a time when global efforts tostrengthen health systems provide a unique opportunity to scale up integrated packagesof health and nutrition interventions with common delivery platforms, thereby reducingcosts. 'Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost?' has benefited from the expertise of manyinternational agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and research institutions. This book will be of interest to policy makers, public health officials, nutritionists, government officials, and all those interested in improving child nutrition and health outcomes.

Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost? (Directions in Development - Human Development)

Politics & Social Sciences

McDonald, Christine

Horton, Susan

Mahal, Ajay

Brooks, Jana Krystene

Social Sciences

Un cadre d'investissement pour la nutrition: Atteindre fes cibles mondiales en matière de retard de croissance, d'anemie, d'allaitement maternel et ... - Human Development) (French Edition)

Kakietek, Jakub

Dayton Eberwein, Julia

Walters, Dylan

International

<p>Overweight and obesity constitute a major global epidemic that has grown substantially. They are particularly alarming in Saudi Arabia, where more than half of the adult population is overweight and one out of five people are obese. Additionally, the prevalence of all noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)--such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers--has increased substantially in recent decades, and today they are the leading cause of disability and death in the country. While the causes of overweight and obesity are complex and numerous, several innovative and multisectoral evidence-based interventions are emerging globally. Saudi Arabia has already embarked on the design and implementation of several such interventions and is committed to further expanding and scaling up such efforts in order to meet national goals and achieve results. This book builds on this work by laying out the remaining challenges while highlighting the opportunities lying ahead. The book provides new evidence and analysis on obesity in Saudi Arabia in order to support planning efforts on obesity prevention in the country. This includes examining the current prevalence of obesity and its risk factors, estimating the health and economic burden associated with obesity in the country, exploring the relationship between obesity and COVID-19, and identifying existing obesity prevention efforts and ways to enhance their impact based on the latest evidence. Finally, the book explores the use of a food system approach to connect human health and the environment, including through the production of a Saudi-specific Nutrient Profiling Model to help guide nutrition and obesity-related policies.</p>

Overweight and Obesity in Saudi Arabia: Consequences and Solutions (International Development in Focus)

Herbst, Christopher

Alghaith, Taghred

Alluhidan, Mohammed

Alazemi, Nahar

Alsukait, Reem

Economics

The World Bank

The Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project: A review of the project with special emphasis on the monitoring and information system (Working paper)

Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program

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