Use and misuse of stunting as a measure of child health

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The term "stunting" has become pervasive in international nutrition and child health research, program, and policy circles. Although originally intended as a population-level statistical indicator of children's social and economic deprivation, the conventional anthropometric definition of stunting (height-for-age z scores

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Perumal, N., Bassani, D. G., & Roth, D. E. (2018). Use and misuse of stunting as a measure of child health. Journal of Nutrition, 148(3), 311–315. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxx064

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