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The SDGs are seen as a globally agreed upon agenda providing nations with requisite standards for assessing performance on targets to promote welfare, improve health, and advance equity and environmental sustainability. Within this framework, child nutrition is conceptualized as a continuum reflecting the dietary needs of healthy children under the age of 5. Since child growth is accepted as a useful measure of child as well as overall health status worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines highlight four essential anthropometric indicators to estimate nutritional imbalances among children under the age of 5: stunting, wasting, overweight, and underweight. These indicators are articulated in SDG #2, providing guidelines for assessing the prevalence of stunting and malnutrition (defined as wasting and overweight) among children under the age of 5.
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Lombe, M., Rao, S., Chu, Y. (2020). Child Nutrition: Benchmarking Progress since Implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_85-1
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