Linear growth is increasingly used as the sole or primary outcome for evaluating
interventions, but impact is often not seen. Sometimes there is interest in whether children …

When implementing interventions integrating nutrition, health, and early childhood
development, evaluation studies of effectiveness that assess the intermediate and ultimate …

How can children, born into less-than-optimal environments, avert the mild and moderate
malnutrition that underlies the majority of child mortality? It is the basic thesis of this paper …

There is no doubt that the first 1000 days of life are crucial for human physical and mental
development (1, 2). However, a key question is if the developmental damage caused by …

Safe and adequate complementary feeding of breastfed infants is well recognized as a
critical factor in preventing child malnutrition. In disadvantaged populations, growth faltering …

Background Child linear growth sometimes improves in both intervention and comparison
groups in evaluations of nutrition interventions, possibly because of spillover intervention …

Table of Contents Summary 86 1. Background 88 1.1 History and development of growth
monitoring programmes 88 1.2 Objectives of growth monitoring 89 2. Expected benefits of …

Background: Undernutrition in early life underlies 45% of child deaths globally. Stunting
malnutrition (suboptimal linear growth) also has long-term negative effects on childhood …

Ponderal and linear growth of children has been widely studied; however, epidemiologic
evidence of a relationship between the two is inconsistent. Child undernutrition in the form of …

Background Faltering in linear growth and neurobehavioural development during early
childhood are often assumed to have common causes because of their consistent …