Fact sheets - Malnutrition - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mar 1, 2024 · Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients. The term malnutrition addresses 3 broad groups of conditions: undernutrition, which …
Malnutrition - World Health Organization (WHO)
May 7, 2025 · Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients. The term malnutrition covers 2 broad groups of conditions. One is undernutrition, …
Malnutrition in children
Stunting, wasting, overweight and underweight What do these indicators tell us? The indicators stunting, wasting, overweight and underweight are used to measure nutritional imbalance; such imbalance …
Disease-related malnutrition: WHO/Europe factsheet highlights …
Sep 9, 2024 · Why are patients malnourished?Disease-related malnutrition can harm our health in many ways. It weakens the body’s ability to fight infection and recover from illness and can take a serious …
Malnutrition rates reach alarming levels in Gaza, WHO warns
Jul 27, 2025 · Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. Of 74 malnutrition-related deaths in 2025, 63 occurred in July – including 24 children under five, …
Guidelines for the Inpatient Treatment of Severely Malnourished Children
Severely malnourished children need special care. This book provides simple, practical guidelines for treating these children successfully and takes into account the limited resources of many hospitals …
Supplementary foods for the management of moderate acute …
Aug 9, 2023 · In children aged 6–59 months, moderate acute malnutrition is defined as moderate wasting (i.e. weight-for-height between –3 and –2 Z-scores of the WHO Child Growth Standards …
Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip
Feb 19, 2024 · A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis …
Urgent action needed as acute malnutrition threatens the lives of ...
Jan 12, 2023 · Conflict, climate shocks, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and rising costs of living are leaving increasing numbers of children acutely malnourished while key health, nutrition and other life …
Fluid management in severely malnourished children under 5 years of …
Aug 9, 2023 · Children under 5 years of age with severe acute malnutrition and signs of shock or severe dehydration and who cannot be rehydrated orally or by nasogastric tube should be treated with …