Assessment of the WHO Stunting Framework using Ethiopia as a case study

Poor linear growth in children <5 years old, or stunting, is a serious public health problem particularly in Sub‐Saharan Africa. In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a conceptual framework on the Context, Causes and Consequences of Childhood Stunting (the ‘WHO framework’) that identifies specific and general factors associated with stunting. The framework is based upon a global review of data, and we have applied it to a...