Evidence on Child Nutrition Recommendations and Challenges in Crisis Settings: A Scoping Review

Abstract

Adequate child nutrition is critical to child development, yet child malnutrition is prevalent in crisis settings. However, the intersection of malnutrition and disasters is sparse. This study reviews existing evidence on nutrition responses and outcomes for infants and young children during times of crisis. The scoping review was conducted via two approaches: a systematic search and a purposive search. For the systematic search, two key online databases, PubMed and Science Direct, were utilized. In total, data from 32 studies were extracted and included in the data extraction form. Additionally, seven guidelines and policy documents were included, based on relevance to this study. Overall, the existing evidence demonstrates the negative impacts of crises on nutritional status, diet intake, anthropometric failure, and long-term child development. On the other hand, crisis-related interventions positively affected nutrition-related knowledge and practices. Further studies should be carried out to explore the sustainability of the interventions and the success of existing guidelines. Since this study focuses only on nutrition among children under three, further studies should likewise consider an extended age range from three to five years.

Analisis situasi kejadian stunting pada bayi di bawah lima tahun (balita)

“…Cakupan pemanfaatan posyandu dan penggunaan alat kontrasepsi di Kabupaten Pania pada tabel 2 terbilang masih rendah dengan proporsi masingmasing 10,6% untuk pemanfaatan posyandu balita dan 0,39% untuk Is licensed under a Creative Commons Attributions-Share Artike 4.0 International LIcense penggunaan kontrasepsi. Ketersediaan pelayanan kesehatan dan kemampuan ekonomi untuk membayar biaya pelayanan sangat berperan dalam status gizi anak (Marshall et al, 2021). Penggunaan alat kontrasepsi yang efektif dapat mencegah terjadinya kehamilan dengan cara mengatur jarak kehamilan dan memberikan waktu bagi PUS untuk mempersiapkan kehamilannya (Kemenkes, 2021b).…”

Improving child nutrition in disasters by developing a modeled disaster preparedness nutrition education curriculum

“…Additionally, governments worldwide support food production and agriculture with an estimated USD 630 billion annually, but they have failed to deliver healthy diets to children and other vulnerable populations ( 6 ). In addition to other numerous accompanied hardships, disasters compound these difficulties for children, highlighting the global inequalities they face; moreover, they affect children’s nutritional status, dietary intake, and long-term development and cause general anthropometric failure ( 7 ). A longitudinal study in rural Nepal ( 8 ) demonstrated that despite a decrease in other infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic exacerbated food insecurity and child malnutrition because of reduced employment opportunities, household income, and accessibility to and affordability of nutritious food, which further increased child vulnerability.…”