Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions]
SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION (SAM)—extremely low weight for one’s height—is a life-threatening condition affecting mostly children under five years of age. It is caused by a combination of infection, such as diarrheal disease, and poor diets that are inadequate for nutritional needs. SAM is one of the...
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| description | SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION (SAM)—extremely low weight for one’s height—is a life-threatening condition affecting mostly children under five years of age. It is caused by a combination of infection, such as diarrheal disease, and poor diets that are inadequate for nutritional needs. SAM is one of the top three nutrition-related causes of death in children under five according to the 2008 Maternal and Child Nutrition Lancet Series. A child with SAM is 11 times more likely to die than a well-nourished child. Despite the size of the problem, until the early 2000s SAM appeared to be a so-called neglected disease: little support went to large-scale treatment programs targeted toward children with SAM. Few countries-even among those with a high preva-lence of malnutrition-had a clear national pol-icy for detecting and treating SAM children.10 The development and adoption of a new approach-the community-based management of acute malnutri-tion (CMAM)-was to change the public health nutrition landscape by bringing treatment out of hospitals and into the community |
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| spelling | CGSpace1332902025-11-06T06:42:18Z Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions] Hodge, Judith White, Jessica health nutrition poverty developing countries countries sanitation malnutrition education SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION (SAM)—extremely low weight for one’s height—is a life-threatening condition affecting mostly children under five years of age. It is caused by a combination of infection, such as diarrheal disease, and poor diets that are inadequate for nutritional needs. SAM is one of the top three nutrition-related causes of death in children under five according to the 2008 Maternal and Child Nutrition Lancet Series. A child with SAM is 11 times more likely to die than a well-nourished child. Despite the size of the problem, until the early 2000s SAM appeared to be a so-called neglected disease: little support went to large-scale treatment programs targeted toward children with SAM. Few countries-even among those with a high preva-lence of malnutrition-had a clear national pol-icy for detecting and treating SAM children.10 The development and adoption of a new approach-the community-based management of acute malnutri-tion (CMAM)-was to change the public health nutrition landscape by bringing treatment out of hospitals and into the community 2016-06-23 2023-11-10T08:55:14Z 2023-11-10T08:55:14Z Presentation https://hdl.handle.net/10568/133290 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295889_05 Open Access application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | health nutrition poverty developing countries countries sanitation malnutrition education Hodge, Judith White, Jessica Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions] |
| title | Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions] |
| title_full | Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions] |
| title_fullStr | Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions] |
| title_short | Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions] |
| title_sort | chapter 5 addressing a neglected problem community based management of acute malnutrition nourishing millions |
| topic | health nutrition poverty developing countries countries sanitation malnutrition education |
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