Chapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions]

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dc.creatorHodge, Judith
dc.creatorWhite, Jessica
dc.date2016-06-23
dc.date2023-11-10T08:55:14Z
dc.date2023-11-10T08:55:14Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:24:08Z
dc.descriptionSEVERE 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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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/133290
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/103301
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295889_05
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectcountries
dc.subjectsanitation
dc.subjectmalnutrition
dc.subjecteducation
dc.titleChapter 5: Addressing a neglected problem: Community-based management of acute malnutrition [Nourishing Millions]
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