Mapping child growth failure in Africa between 2000 and 2015
Mapping child growth failure in Africa between 2000 and 2015
Nature 555, 7694 (2018). doi:10.1038/nature25760
Authors: Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Anoushka I. Millear, Rebecca W. Stubbs, Chloe Shields, Brandon V. Pickering, Lucas Earl, Nicholas Graetz, Damaris K. Kinyoki, Sarah E. Ray, Samir Bhatt, Annie J. Browne, Roy Burstein, Ewan Cameron, Daniel C. Casey, Aniruddha Deshpande, Nancy Fullman, Peter W. Gething, Harry S. Gibson, Nathaniel J. Henry, Mario Herrero, L. Kendall Krause, Ian D. Letourneau, Aubrey J. Levine, Patrick Y. Liu, Joshua Longbottom, Benjamin K. Mayala, Jonathan F. Mosser, Abdisalan M. Noor, David M. Pigott, Ellen G. Piwoz, Puja Rao, Rahul Rawat, Robert C. Reiner, David L. Smith, Daniel J. Weiss, Kirsten E. Wiens, Ali H. Mokdad, Stephen S. Lim, Christopher J. L. Murray, Nicholas J. Kassebaum & Simon I. Hay
Insufficient growth during childhood is associated with poor health outcomes and an increased risk of death. Between 2000 and 2015, nearly all African countries demonstrated improvements for children under 5 years old for stunting, wasting, and underweight, the core components of child growth failure. Here
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