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Endnotes
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Lacey and Pritchett, JADA 2003;103:1061-1072.

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The Lancet’s series on maternal and child undernutrition. Executive
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Bejon, Philip, Shebe Mohammed, Isaiah Mwangi, Sarah H. Atkinson, Faith Osier, Norbert Peshu, Charles R. Newton, Kathryn Maitland, and James A. Berkley (2008), “Fraction of all hospital admissions and deaths attributable to malnutrition among children in rural
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World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/
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22 Caulfield, Laura E. , Mercedes de Onis, Monika Blössner, and Robert E. Black (2004), “Undernutrition as an underlying cause of child
deaths associated with diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and measles,”
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UNICEF, 2010.

4

Ibid.

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UNICEF. http://www.unicef.org/progressforchildren/2006n4/undernutritiondefinition.html

7

Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Challenge Paper: Hunger and Malnutrition. Sue Horton, Harold Alderman, and Juan A. Rivera. 2008.

8World

Health Organization. http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/
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9 The

Lancet’s series on maternal and child undernutrition. The Lancet,
Volume 371. 2008.

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Undernutrition is one form of malnutrition. Overnutrition, or the
excessive consumption of certain nutrients, manifests itself most obviously in obesity. It is a growing health problem in both developed and
developing countries, leading to the deaths of 2.6 million adults and
children per year. World Health Organization, “Nutrition,” http://
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11

Ibid.

12

Black, Robert E., Lindsay H. Allen, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Laura E.
Caulfield, Mercedes de Onis, Majid Ezzati, Colin Mathers, and Juan
Rivera (2008), “Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences,” The Lancet, 371 (9608):
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The Lancet’s series on maternal and child undernutrition Executive
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The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. 2011. A
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