Sociocultural environmental factors and childhood stunting: qualitative studies - a protocol for the Shared Values theme of the UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Stunting is a significant and growing global problem that is resisting scientific attempts to understand it in terms of direct nutrition-related determinants. In recent years, research included more complex, indirect and multifactorial determinants and expanded to include multisectoral and lifestyle-related approaches. The United Kingdom Research Initiative Global Challenges Research Fund's (UKRI GCRF) Action Against Stunting Hub starts on the premise that dominant factors of stunting may vary between contexts and life phases of the child. Thus, the construction of a typology of clustered factors will be more useful to design effective programmes to alleviate it.The Shared Values theme seeks to build a bottom-up holistic picture of interlinked cultural contextual facto

SUBMITTER: Odii BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10900418 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature