An Analysis Of The National Progress And Household Characteristics Associated With Stunting
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Kenya National Information Platform for Food and Nutrition
March
2021
Overview
Stunting is an anthropometric indicator that is linked to long-term human development. It is a measure of growth retardation as a result of chronic deprivation in the quantity and quality of diets that is diagnosed by capturing height and age and assessing the same against the height and age from a healthy reference population. It is an important measure of a child's health.