COPD’s early origins in low-and-middle income countries: what are the implications of a false start? (original) (raw)

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Background Paper 6.13 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD

The importance of child malnutrition as an indicator for tracking the nutrition and health status of populations is well recognized (de Onis et al. 2004). Malnutrition leads to lower individual productivity, deterioration of health, and lower life expectancy (Caulfield et al. 2004, Pelletier and Frongillo 2003) and hinders the potential for countries to reduce poverty and maximize socioeconomic development (Grantham-McGregor et al. 2007). Poverty, poor health and nutrition, and deficient healthcare derail the potential for cognitive development of about 200 million children under age 5 in developing countries (Ezzati et al. 2002). This negatively affects school performance, thus lowering adult incomes, which in turn has negative implications for national development (Ezzati et al. 2002). The combined effects of child and maternal underweight

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