This 51-page guide is available in English and is intended for intermediate level public health professionals. This guide outlines a method for estimating the disease burden at national or local levels that are associated with maternal and child malnutrition. The goal is to help policy-makers and others quantify the increased risk associated with malnutrition, in terms of attributable mortality and morbidity, at country or local levels. The estimates will allow policy-makers to compare the disease burden of malnutrition for different countries, or regions within countries, and enable resources to be deployed more effectively. Repeated assessments will also allow trends to be monitored and the impact of interventions to be evaluated.
