Presence of nutrition policy to address the burdens of
undernutrition and overweight/obesity
Table 2 and Additional file 2: Table S2 show the results of
the presence of nutrition policy to address undernutrition
or overweight/obesity by regions. Of 139 LAMICs, 69.1%
and 45.3% had policy to address undernutrition and overweight,
respectively. All eight South Asian LAMICs had
policy to address undernutrition, but the lowest proportion
of them (37.5%), had policy to address overweight/
obesity. Half of LAMICs in East Asia and Pacific had