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A brief guide to malnutrition and its impact globally and in Bangladesh.
Stunting: abnormally low height-for-age. Wasting: abnormally low weight-for-height. Underweight: abnormally low weight-for-age.
1. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition
2. https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/
3. https://www.healthdata.org/results/gbd_summaries/2019/vitamin-a-deficiency-level-3-risk
4. https://www.healthdata.org/results/gbd_summaries/2019/zinc-deficiency-level-3-risk
5. https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Copy_of_tagged_Bangladesh-Nutrition-Profile.pdf
6. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/156482651403500214
7. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.ANM.CHLD.ZS?locations=BD
8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8262449/
9. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(22)00084-5/fulltext
10. https://www.wfp.org/publications/food-and-nutrition-security-bangladesh