45. Adequate nutrition and growth monitoring in early childhood are particularly important. Where necessary, integrated management of severe acute malnutrition should be expanded through facility and community-based interventions, as well as treatment of moderate acute malnutrition, including therapeutic feeding interventions.
| Year | 2013 |
| Topic | Food policy |
| Document Type | General Recommendations |
| Country | N/A |
| Policy Area | Nutritional surveillance Food and nutrition security |
| Human Rights Comiteee | CRC |
| Human Rights | Right to health Right to adequate food and nutrition |
| Groups Affected | Children and adolescents |
Committee on the Rights of the Child, General comment No. 15 - on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (art. 24), CRC/C/GC/15, (2013). Par. 45. Available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2fGC%2f15&Lang=en