Background Progress has been made worldwide in reducing chronic undernutrition and
rates of linear growth stunting in children under 5 y of age, although rates still remain high in …

As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, the world is at a crossroads. As the Editors
of the journal Global Food Security, we share our perspectives on the food security …

Background Child stunting reduces survival and impairs neurodevelopment. We tested the
independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and …

In the past three decades, Brazil has undergone rapid changes in major social determinants
of health and in the organisation of health services. In this report, we examine how these …

Background Three large new trials of unprecedented scale and cost, which included novel
factorial designs, have found no effect of basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) …

Abstract In 2012, the World Health Organization adopted a resolution on maternal, infant
and young child nutrition that included a global target to reduce by 40% the number of …

ObjectiveTo quantify the prevalence and trends of stunting among children using the WHO
growth standards. DesignFive hundred and seventy-six nationally representative surveys …

Objective We systematically evaluated health and nutrition programmes to identify context-
specific interventional packages that might help to prioritise the implementation of …

Background There is little information on country trends in the complete distributions of
children's anthropometric status, which are needed to assess all levels of mild to severe …

In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Carlos Monteiro and
Geoffrey Cannon provide a perspective from Brazil on the rise of multinational food …