Capacity-building for a strong public health nutrition workforce in lowresource countries
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2017Author
Delisle, Hélène
Shrimpton, Roger
Sanders, David
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Neglected for several decades, nutrition is now firmly on the development
agenda. Important landmarks are the
initiation of the Scaling Up Nutrition
movement in 2010; the adoption by
the World Health Assembly of the
Comprehensive Implementation Plan
for Maternal, Infant and Young Child
Nutrition in 2014; and the World Health
Organization’s (WHO) Global Action
Plan for the Prevention and Control
of Noncommunicable Diseases for
2013–2020. Public health nutrition
has to meet multiple new challenges,
including the shift from the millennium
development goals to the sustainable
development goals (SDGs), together
with growing issues such as climate
change, globalization, urbanization,
socioeconomic disparities, migration
and wars.1