Malnutrition: a global health perspective from a Timorese mountain.
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Rosa’s story typified so many of Timor-Leste’s young. A 6-year-old girl from a remote subsistence village, she presented to our outreach clinic simply hungry. The rudimentarily performed anthropometry and growth charting was arresting, but then so are national statistics. According to UNICEF, malnutrition is despairingly rife in Timor-Leste. About 58% of children are stunted, 19% severely malnourished with endemic micronutrient deficiency, with poorer outcomes still for rural dwellers. To benchmark, malnutrition in Timor-Leste eclipses that of Ethiopia and Malawi, traditional purveyors of poster-children for global hunger.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Medical journal of Australia
دوره 203 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015