The Philippines, like many other countries, is experiencing high temperatures that could surpass the global average last year, the hottest year since global records began in mid-1800s. El Niño is making things worse with the heat index reaching up to 47 degrees Celsius this week in some parts of the country and forecasted to get even hotter next month. Face-to-face classes in public schools have been suspended and work-from-home option has been revived for employees
Many people have written about why the Philippines’ economy is bad, and why it has not developed significantly for around five decades now. The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has written extensively about development issues in the health sector. One of the big topics of discussion is stunting in children. Stunting is a short way to refer to stunted growth, usually defined as impaired growth and development, particularly in height. Stunted height is directly related to malnutrition. This is not to say that entire populations that are shorter than a theoretical height are all stunted, rather it means stunted height
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