For nearly 30 years, the rates of both wasting and stunting in the Philippines have been nearly flat. For 2019, the rate of stunting among children under five years of age (28.8 percent) was only slightly lower than in 2008 (32 percent)—the prevalence of underweight in 2019 was 19 percent and that of wasting was 6 percent. Based on the World Health Organization’s classification of undernutrition rates, the stunting prevalence of children in the Philippines...
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2021/01/20
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2021/04/30
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Undernutrition in the Philippines : Scale, Scope, and Opportunities for Nutrition Policy and Programming
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integrated management of childhood illness