Nutrition in emergencies list of publications

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

General

• Food and nutrition needs in emergencies (2004)
• The management of nutrition in major emergencies (2000)
• Caring for the nutritionally vulnerable during emergencies (1999)
  An annotated bibliography

• Field guide on rapid nutritional assessment in emergencies (1995)

• Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being among Children in Severe Food Shortage Situation

Infant and young child feeding

• Addendum to Operational Guidance on IFE (version 2.1, 2007) (2010)
• Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 2 Version 1.1 (2007)
  For health and nutrition workers in emergency situations for training, practice and reference
• Infant and young child feeding in emergencies (Version 2.1) (2007)
  Operational guidance for emergency relief staff and programme managers
• Guiding principles for feeding infants and young children during emergencies (2004)
• Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 1 (2001)
  For emergency relief staff

Micronutrient deficiencies

• Preventing and controlling micronutrient deficiencies in populations affected by an emergency (2007)
  pdf, 800kb
  Joint statement by the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and the United Nations Children’s Fund
• Iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent (2006)
  pdf, 295kb
  Joint statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund
• Pellagra and its prevention and control in major emergencies
• Thiamine deficiency and its prevention and control in major emergencies
• Scurvy and its prevention and control in major emergencies

WHO Statements/Facts sheets on nutrition issues in emergency settings

• Model joint policy statement on appropriate infant and young child feeding in an emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products (March 2008)
• 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 calls for support for appropriate infant and young children in the current emergency in Lebanon, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products (2006)
• Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in countries affected by the tsunami (2004)
• Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies

Related publications

• Infant and young child feeding
• Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
• Reduction of Micronutrient Malnutrition
• Severe acute malnutrition

Useful links

• WHO Child and adolescent health and development
• WHO Health Action in Crises
• WHO Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies
• Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)
• FANTA Focus Area: emergency nutrition
• Global Nutrition Cluster
• Save the Children (SCF)
• The Sphere Project: Minimum Standards in Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid
• UN SCN - Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations (formerly RNIS)