Stunting (low height/age)
🇲🇾kids under-5
▶️21.8% (2019)
Wasting (low wt/ht) ⬆️9.7% (2019) from 8% (2015)
Underweight (low wt/age)
⬆️14.1%(2019) from 12.4%(2015)
Complications of Malnutrition:
⬇️ IQ
▶️Weak Immunity➡️Recurrent infections⬇️ Growth
▶️Smaller stature adults
⬇️Productivity
⬆️Risk obesity➡️NCDs
⬆️Premature ☠️
Compounding socio-economic factors:
▶️Low income/Poverty
▶️Poor housing
▶️Poor social security net
▶️Poor food security
▶️Poor health education
▶️Curative centric MOH (68% health spending in 2019)
Panacea:
▶️Rectify social determinants of health
▶️60% of health outcomes are shaped by social, economic & environmental factors
▶️Good Antenatal Care
▶️Exclusive breastfeeding 1st 6m ▶️Optimum complementary feeding 1st 2y of life
▶️Optimise family-based diet for 2-5y old
