The Department of Health (DOH) said Monday that among their priorities to address this year is the stunting among children.

Objectives This paper examines the differential impact of responsive parenting and nutrition interventions on early child ...

More than 20% of the world's children under the age of five have a low height in relation to their age due to undernutrition or malnutrition, i.e. they are stunted. Though childhood stunting does not ...

When food prices skyrocket during an economic crisis, it is primarily urban populations and people with low levels of education who are affected.

Antibiotics alone likely cannot overcome the complex factors that cause stunted growth and perpetuate the cycle of poverty in the developing world, new research suggests. An international team of ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Oct. 14, 2021)—Nearly half of all children whose growth is stunted by poor nutrition face further threats from climate change because they are growing up in the countries most ...

(CNN) - Children born at 5,000 feet or more above sea level are typically smaller at birth and more likely to remain stunted than those born at lower altitudes, according to new worldwide research ...

Nigeria faces the risk of a generation of stunted adults as climate change and conflict have resulted in the country having the second-largest number of malnourished children globally after India. Of ...

A new study released this week by Ethiopian researchers shows that children who are born at higher altitudes, such as 1,500m (4,921 ft) above sea level, are more at risk of being smaller at birth and ...