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Stunting in African children.
A total of 651 preschool children from rural central Africa were selected by random cluster sampling, weighed, and measured. Two per cent were wasted, but 47% were stunted. As linear growth recovers more slowly than weight repeated infections may give inadequate time for height catch-up.
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- Sistem Informasi Peduli Stunting Berbasis WebSahalana Wijaya Panjaitan · 2026 · UNILAK
- Implentasi Kebijakan Program Penanggulangan Stunting Kota PekanbaruWira Lasmana Rahmanto · 2023 · UNILAK
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Understanding Stunting: Impact, Causes, and Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Reduction—A Narrative Review
Stunting is a major global health concern, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, due to its persistently high prevalence. It often originates from chronic malnutrition during the critical first 1000 days of life. Maternal and child nutrition are critical determinants of a child’s growth…
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Overweight, stunting, and concurrent overweight and stunting observed over 3 years in Vietnamese children
Background: Malnutrition, both stunting and overweight/obesity, present a public health concern in many countries in the world. Objective: This study aims to examine: (1) longitudinal changes in prevalence of overweight, stunting, and concurrent overweight and stunting among preschool children…
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Stunting and severe stunting among children under-5 years in Nigeria: A multilevel analysis
BACKGROUND: Stunting has been identified as one of the major proximal risk factors for poor physical and mental development of children under-5 years. Stunting predominantly occurs in the first 1000 days of life (0–23 months) and continues to the age of five. This study examines factors associated…
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Childhood stunting: a global perspective
Childhood stunting is the best overall indicator of children's well‐being and an accurate reflection of social inequalities. Stunting is the most prevalent form of child malnutrition with an estimated 161 million children worldwide in 2013 falling below −2 SD from the length‐for‐age/height‐for‐age…
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Bayesian geostatistical modelling of stunting in Rwanda: risk factors and spatially explicit residual stunting burden
BACKGROUND: Stunting remains a significant public health issue in Rwanda and its prevalence exhibits considerable geographical variation. We apply Bayesian geostatistical modelling to study the spatial pattern of stunting in children less than five years considering anthropometric, socioeconomic…
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Stunting Super App as an Effort Toward Stunting Management in Indonesia: Delphi and Pilot Study
BACKGROUND: Currently, 30 million children are experiencing acute malnutrition, and 8 million children are severely underweight. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to develop a stunting super app, a one-stop app designed to prevent and manage stunting in Indonesia. METHODS: This study consisted of three…
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Stunting and Combined Overweight with Stunting among Schoolchildren in Kuwait: Trends over a 13-Year Period
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the sex- and age-specific trends of stunting and combined overweight with stunting among schoolchildren over a 13-year period in Kuwait. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The Kuwait Nutrition Surveillance System objectively measured the height of 172,573…
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The Comparison of Dental Caries Severity on Stunting and Non-stunting Toddlers in Kalisat, Jember, Indonesia
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Nutritional deficiency in stunting toddlers is closely related to the calcium deficiency which is the most important component of the formation of bone and tooth structure. Deficiency of calcium can delay tooth eruption and increase the risk of dental caries. Little is…
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Environmental enteric dysfunction and child stunting
In 2017, an estimated 1 in every 4 (23%) children aged
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The stunting syndrome in developing countries
Linear growth failure is the most common form of undernutrition globally. With an estimated 165 million children below 5 years of age affected, stunting has been identified as a major public health priority, and there are ambitious targets to reduce the prevalence of stunting by 40% between 2010…
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Animal Sourced Foods and Child Stunting
Stunting affects 160 million pre-school children globally with adverse life-long consequences. While work within nutritional science suggests that stunting in early childhood is associated with low intakes of animal-sourced foods (ASFs), this topic has received little attention from economists. We…
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Prevalence and risk factors for stunting and severe stunting among under-fives in North Maluku province of Indonesia
BACKGROUND: Adequate nutrition is needed to ensure optimum growth and development of infants and young children. Understanding of the risk factors for stunting and severe stunting among children aged less than five years in North Maluku province is important to guide Indonesian government public…
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Determinants of stunting and severe stunting among under-fives: evidence from the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey
BACKGROUND: Stunting remains a major public health concern in Nepal as it increases the risk of illness, irreversible body damage and mortality in children. Public health planners can reshape and redesign new interventions to reduce stunting and severe stunting among children aged less than 5 years…
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Stunting diagnostic and awareness: impact assessment study of sociodemographic factors of stunting among school-going children of Pakistan
BACKGROUND: Stunting is a major public health issue in most of developing countries. Although, its worldwide prevalence is decreasing slowly but the number of stunted children is still rising in Pakistan. Stunting is highly associated with several long-term consequences, including higher rate of…
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