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Stunting - Coggle Diagram
Stunting
Prevention methods
Improve the identification, measurement and understanding of stunting and scale up coverage of stunting-prevention activities
Integrate nutrition in health-promotion strategies and reinforce service-delivery capacity in primary health systems and community-based care for prevention of stunting and critical malnutrition, supported by social protection programmes where feasible
Boost methods to accurately assess the burden of stunting, in order to effectively plan, design and monitor programmes
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Establish policies and/or strengthen interventions to improve maternal nutrition and health, beginning with adolescent girls
Impose labour policies, including maternity protection, in support of exclusive and continued breastfeeding
Implement programmes that deliver weekly iron and folate supplementation, as well as the prevention and treatment of infections and nutrient supplementation during pregnancy
Strengthen community-based interference, including improved water, sanitation and hygiene, to protect children from diarrhoea illness and malaria, intestinal worms and environmental causes of subclinical infection
Definition
The impaired growth and development that children experience from poor nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation
Children are defined as stunted if their height-for-age is more than two standard deviations below the WHO Child Growth Standards median
Causes of stunting
Infant and young child feeding practices that grant to stunting include suboptimal breastfeeding (specifically, non-exclusive breastfeeding) and complementary feeding that is limited in quantity, quality and variety
Subclinical infections, resulting from exposure to contaminated environments and poor hygiene, are correlated with stunting
Severe infectious sickness lead to wasting, that may have long-term consequences for linear growth, depending on the severity, duration and recurrence, particularly if there is insufficient nourishment to support recovery
As a result of household poverty, caregiver neglect, non reactive feeding practices, ineffective child stimulation and food insecurity can all interact to disrupt growth and development
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