Severe acute malnutrition list of publications

The documents and articles listed below can be accessed, downloaded, or ordered from the WHO bookshop.

• Training course on the management of severe malnutrition (2009 Update)
• WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children (2009)
  A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund
• Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (2007)
  A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition and the United Nations Children’s Fund
• WHO, UNICEF and SCN Informal consultation on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children (2006)
  Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Volume 27, Number 3, September 2006 (Supplement - SCN Nutrition Policy Paper No. 21)
• Severe malnutrition: Report of a consultation to review current literature, 6-7 September 2004 (2005)
• Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children (2003)
• Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers (1999)

Regional publications

• Dez passos para reabilitação nutricional
  Pan American Health Organization, 1996

Related publications

• Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition
  Guidelines for care at the first-referral level in developing countries, 2000
• Pocket book of hospital care for children
  Guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources