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Unfortunate Moms and Unfortunate Children: Impact of the Nepali civil war on women's stature and intergenerational health
This research paper analyzes the long-term and intergenerational health impacts of the Nepali 1996-2006 conflict. It finds that exposure to conflict during childhood has a negative impact on attained adult height. Moreover, the research finds that a mothe
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INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework: Ending Violence Against Children: How to define and measure change
In 2016, a cohort of 10 global organisations collaborated to produce INSPIRE: Seven strategies for ending violence against children, the first-ever global technical package for preventing and responding to violence against children. To supplement the te
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INSPIRE Handbook: Action for implementing the seven strategies for ending violence against children
Approximately 1 billion children are subjected to violence across the globe each year. The costs of such widespread violence are immense; exposure to violence is associated with effects on brain function, psychological well-being, noncommunicable diseases
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Adolescent Nutrition: Call to Action
An estimated 1.2 billion adolescents aged 10-18 will have a profound impact on the current and future health and well-being of their children, and society as a whole. Through the promotion of healthy diet and eating practices during adolescence, we have t
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World Development Report 2018: Learning to realize education's promise
This report by the World Bank is the first of its kind to be entirely devoted to education. Around the world, there are many obstacles to learning, These challenges, left unattended, stall the development of communities, with far-stretching and long-lasti
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Pathways for Peace: Inclusive approaches to preventing violent conflict
Today's conflicts are increasingly complex and long-lasting. By 2030, it is estimated that over half of the worlds poor people will be living countries affected by high levels of violence and conflict. The consequences of such widespread violence will be
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An Investment Framework for Nutrition: Reaching the global targets for stunting, anemia, breastfeeding, and wasting
As of 2015, 159 million children under the age of five were chronically malnourished or stunted, underscoring a massive global health and economic development challenge (UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank 2015). In 2012—in an effort to rally the international co
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DCP Chapter 12: School Feeding Programs in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
This chapter reviews the evidence about how school feeding meets multiple objectives—including social safety nets, education, nutrition, health, and local agriculture—and provides some indication of costs in relation to benefits. School feeding remains co
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DCP Chapter 4: Global Variation in Education Outcomes at Ages 5 to 19
This chapter confirms the positive relationship between educational attainment and economic growth. Student achievement at the system level is affected by size of the rural population, diversity of terrain, adult literacy rates, income distribution, ethni
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DCP Chapter 15: School-Based Delivery of Vaccines to 5- to 19- Year Olds
School-based delivery of vaccines remains a viable approach for the control of infections and diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality. Increasing school enrollment and attendance by children and adolescents, particularly girls, has changed
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DCP Chapter 9: Puberty, Developmental Processes, and Health Interventions
Key dynamics of adolescent development and how they provide opportunities for intervention are examined in this chapter. Adolescence remains a time of great developmental plasticity and risk for the onset of a range of disorders that can carry a high burd
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DCP Chapter 21: Platforms for Delivering Adolescent Health Actions
This chapter reviews the developmental context of adolescent health then categorizes countries according to their excess burden of disease, before describing six platforms that can deliver health actions to adolescents (ages 10–19 years)—health services,