Capacity-building for a strong public health nutrition workforce in lowresource countries

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2017

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World Health Organization

Abstract

Neglected for several decades, nutrition is now firmly on the development agenda. Important landmarks are the initiation of the Scaling Up Nutrition movement in 2010; the adoption by the World Health Assembly of the Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition in 2014; and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases for 2013–2020. Public health nutrition has to meet multiple new challenges, including the shift from the millennium development goals to the sustainable development goals (SDGs), together with growing issues such as climate change, globalization, urbanization, socioeconomic disparities, migration and wars.1

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Nutrition, Public health, Low resource countries, Sustainable development goals (SDGs)

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Delisle, H. et al. (2017). Capacity-building for a strong public health nutrition workforce in lowresource countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 95(5), 385–388. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.174912