title: Malnutrition of children in developing countries: what can we do?
abstract: This informal paper is a personal account of the development of my work on malnourished children, starting with clinical studies in Jamaica and the challenge of an unacceptably high mortality rate; moving on to the problem of how to define less severe malnutrition in the community; and ending with some reflections on the enormously difficult question of prevention and the contribution that richer countries such as the UK could make.
authors.affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Waterlow
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000639:trends; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012931:Social Environment; D014480:United Nations