Table 1.

Search terms for the PubMed, literature search

#1:	All fields/All text fields	‘Nutritional status’ OR malnutrition OR undernutrition OR underweight OR wasting OR stunting OR overweight OR obesity
AND	Title/Abstract	‘South Africa’ OR ‘sub-Sahara Africa’
AND	Title/Abstract/Abstract	Infant OR baby OR child OR pediatric OR paediatric OR ‘young child’ OR toddler OR pre-school OR preschool OR ‘early childhood’ OR adolescent OR teenager OR youth
AND	Date – Publication/Publication year	1997/01/01 to 2022/07/31 1997 to 2022