Definition
Adolescent: A person transiting from childhood to adulthood between the age 10 and 19 years.
Malnutrition: Disease state characterized by deficiency, excess, or imbalance in micronutrient or macronutrient consumption. Undernutrition encompasses three other distinct terms known as underweight, wasting, and stunting.
Life cycle approach: A systems approach which spans the entire life cycle of humans starting from fetal life till adulthood. Adults then act as progenitors of next generation which starts from fetal life.
Introduction
Children constitute 27% of the world’s population. The issues which plague child health across the globe include lack of safe environment for growth, illiteracy, poverty, illness, food scarcity, undernutrition, and lack of social security. These issues are in turn governed by social, economic, and political dynamics like terrorism, regional conflicts, climate change,...
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Chellani, H., Jena, T.K., Dabas, A. (2019). Child Care Services: Possible Solutions to Improve Outcomes. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_20-1
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