Is malnutrition declining? An analysis of changes in levels of child malnutrition since 1980.

By M. de Onís, E. Frongillo, M. Blössner. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000

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The Burden of Disease and Mortality by Condition: Data, Methods, and Results for 2001 -- Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (2006, methodology): “…representative studies from WHO’s global database on child growth and malnutrition (http://www. who.int/nutgrowthdb/) were used to estimate the prevalence of child stunting and wasting in every country (de Onis and Blossner 2003; de Onis, Frongillo, and Blossner 2000; de Onis and others 2004).”
The stunting syndrome in developing countries (2014, background): “Stunting prevalence is therefore a good indicator of inequalities in human development; 29 across 80 countries, those with a high prevalence of stunting tended also to have larger socio-economic inequalities in children with stunting.”
Successes in African agriculture: Results of an expert survey (2004, background): “Trends in the incidence chronic child malnutrition, as measured by stunting, suggest steady but gradual improvements over the past two decades (de Onis et al., 2000).”
Handbook of cultural developmental science (2010, background): “As with mortality rates, regional differences in the prevalence of stunting (height-for-age less than two standard deviations below median) are substantial (de Onis and Blossner, 2003; de Onis, Frongillo, and Blossner, 2000), being highest in Asia and lowest in the South America/Caribbean region.”