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Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Nadia Akseer, Emily C. Keats, et al. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, July 2020

Reducing child stunting requires interventions in multiple sectors. Improving maternal education, fertility practices, and nutrition, as well as maternal and newborn care, are strong contributors to change. Investing to improve reproductive health practices are important to increase contraceptive use, delay first pregnancy, and increase birth spacing. Improving economic conditions, parental education, and access to water and sanitation are also critical.