Sanitation - Our World in Data
Safe sanitation is essential to reduce deaths from infectious diseases, prevent malnutrition, and provide dignity.| Our World in Data
Stunting is the impaired growth and development that children experience from poor nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation. Children are defined as stunted if their height-for-age is more than two standard deviations below the WHO Child Growth Standards median.Stunting in early life -- particularly in the first 1000 days from conception until the age of two - impaired growth has adverse functional consequences on the child. Some of those consequences include poo...| www.who.int
Safe sanitation is essential to reduce deaths from infectious diseases, prevent malnutrition, and provide dignity.| Our World in Data
How many people lack access to basic handwashing facilities?| Our World in Data
The share of children younger than five years old that are defined as stunted. Stunting is when a child is significantly shorter than the average for their age. It is a consequence of poor nutrition and/or repeated infection.| Our World in Data
Hannah joined us in 2017. She became Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead at Our World in Data in 2023. She was previously Head of Research.She focuses on the long-term changes in the environment – energy, pollution, agriculture, food supply – and their compatibility with global development. Hannah completed her Ph.D. in GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.She is a researcher at the Oxford Martin Programme in Global Development, and an honorary fellow at the University of Edinbu...| Our World in Data
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What are the consequences of undernourishment and how can we make progress against hunger and undernourishment?| Our World in Data
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Diarrheal diseases are one of the leading causes of child deaths while they are largely preventable. How can we continue to make progress against these diseases?| Our World in Data
