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Stunting and Wasting
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Stunting reflects chronic undernutrition during the most critical periods of growth and development in early life.
It is defined as the percentage of children, aged 0 to 59 months, whose height for age is below minus two standard deviations (moderate and severe stunting) and minus three standard deviations (severe stunting) from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards. In India, almost half (48 per cent) of children younger than five years of age are stunted, a manifestation of chronic undernutrition. Stunting and other forms of under-nutrition are thought to be responsible for nearly half of all child deaths globally.
Stunting is associated with an
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