4 февр. 2022 г. · A child is defined as 'stunted' if they are too short for their age. This indicates that their growth and development have been hindered.

19 нояб. 2015 г. · Stunting is the impaired growth and development that children experience from poor nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation.

Stunting is the most prevalent form of child malnutrition with an estimated 161 million children worldwide in 2013 falling below −2 SD.

Stunting is when a child has a low height for their age. This is usually due to malnutrition, repeated infections, and/or poor social stimulation.

Stunted growth, also known as stunting or linear growth failure, is defined as impaired growth and development manifested by low height-for-age.

Child stunting is the failure of children to reach their full growth potential as a result of long-term poor diet, health, and/or care, including emotional ...

Stunted children have impaired behavioral development in early life, are less likely to enroll at school, enroll late, and tend to achieve lower grades. They ...

The prevalence of stunting in children under the age of 5 was 19.9 percent in the region in 2022, 10.8 percent (2.4 percentage points) below the world average ...

Globally, over one in five children (148.1 million) under five years of age were stunted in 2022. In Africa, the prevalence of stunting among children in the ...