Concept Note: Malnutrition
2015
This concept note provides an overview of malnutrition, including its definition, causes, and management related to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. It also describes the state of global malnutrition, including national and international efforts to reduce malnutrition and the stakeholders involved. Subjects covered in this note include: maternal and child health, children, intergenerational disease, public-private partnership, nutrition, strategy, political leadership, scale-up, community health workers, health care delivery, malnutrition, and cross-sector collaboration.
This specific concept note may be used with the Global Health Delivery Online case, Reducing Child Malnutrition in Maharashtra, India.
The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, investigates the management decisions behind disease treatment and prevention globally. The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Case Collection is a set of teaching case studies that are available for all at no cost online through Harvard Business Publishing, GHDonline, and The Case Centre.
Source:
Rosenberg J et al. Malnutrition. Concept Note. Global Health Delivery Project, Harvard Business Publishing 2015. https://www.globalhealthdelivery.org/case-collection/concept-notes/malnutrition.