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Child Nutrition Trends Over the Past Two Decades and Challenges for Achieving Nutrition SDGs and National Targets in China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Background: The objectives of the current study were to identify the trends in child nutrition, the gaps in achieving child nutrition-related goals, and implications for program and policy options for the Chinese government.
Bo Yang, Xin Huang, Qin Liu, Shenglan Tang, M. Story, Yiwen Chen, Maigeng Zhou   +6 more
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Access to nutrition information: a key to improving nutrition status among under-five children in farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria

Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2020
Attaining adequate child nutrition requires prompt access to relevant nutrition information. Present information reveals that the nutrition status of children younger than five years is threatened. In this study we sought to assess under-five nutritional
Fadairo Anjolaoluwa Oreoluwa, Oyebode Lukman Abiodun, Amusat Adeniyi   +2 more
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Impact of Ethiopia's productive safety net program on household food security and child nutrition: A marginal structural modeling approach

SSM: Population Health, 2020
Safety nets are expanding in African countries as a policy instrument to alleviate poverty and food insecurity. Whether safety nets have improved household food security and child diet and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa has not been well documented ...
Bezawit Adugna Bahru, Mulusew G. Jebena, Regina Birner, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
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Nutrition Information Systems for Implementing Child Nutrition Programs

Asian Development Review, 1999
Nutrition information systems (NIS) provide the information needed for planning and implementing nutrition investment programs. This paper develops a framework to analyze NIS in the study countries.
Nancy Mock, John Mason
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Improving maternal and child nutrition in China: an analysis of nutrition policies and programs initiated during the 2000–2015 Millennium Development Goals era and implications for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2020
Background Although good progress was made in maternal and child nutrition during the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era, malnutrition remains one of the major threats on global health.
Xin Huang, Bo Yang, Qin Liu, Ruilin Zhang, Shenglan Tang, M. Story   +5 more
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Brazilian Maternal and Child Nutrition Consortium: establishment, data harmonization and basic characteristics

Scientific Reports, 2020
Pooled data analysis in the field of maternal and child nutrition rarely incorporates data from low- and middle-income countries and existing studies lack a description of the methods used to harmonize the data and to assess heterogeneity.
T. Carrilho, D. Farias, M. Batalha, N. Costa, K. Rasmussen, M. Reichenheim, E. Ohuma, J. Hutcheon, G. Kac, Adauto Emmerich Ana Paula Ana Paula Sayuri Antônio August Oliveira Esteves-Pereira Sato da Silva Costa de Mo, Adauto Emmerich Oliveira, A. P. Esteves-Pereira, A. P. Sato, A. A. D. da Silva, Bárbara Miranda Ferreira Costa, Claudia L de Moraes, C. Saunders, C. Parada, D. S. Rocha, D. Gigante, Edson Theodoro dos Santos-Neto, E. Lacerda, E. Fujimori, F. Surita, I. Gomes-Filho, I. Bierhals, Jane de Carlos Santana Capelli, J. Cecatti, Juliana dos Santos Vaz, J. César, M. Mastroeni, M. A. Carvalhaes, Mariângela Freitas da Silveira, M. Domingues, M. Fernandes, M. Drehmer, M. Gonzalez, P. Padilha, Renato Passini Júnior, R. Souza, R. Alves, R. Batista, S. Mastroeni, S. Saldiva, S. S. da Cruz, S. Morais, S. Mengue   +46 more
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Child anemia and the 2008 food price crisis in Senegal [PDF]

Demographic Research
BACKGROUND: In 2008, world food prices skyrocketed. There is little consensus on the effect of the 2008 food price crisis on poverty, food security, and population health.
Jesse McDevitt-Irwin
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The Effect of Different Nutrition Education Approaches on Children’s Nutritional Status

Bezmiâlem Science, 2021
Objective:The study was performed to assess the potential of different educational approaches given to primary school children on their nutritional status.Methods:The study was conducted with all second and third-grade students studying in an elementary ...
Burcu ATEŞ ÖZCAN, Aydan ERCAN
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Role of Women's Empowerment in Child Nutrition Outcomes: A Systematic Review.

Advances in Nutrition, 2019
Women's empowerment has gained attention as critical for child nutrition during the first 1000 days of life. However, the ways in which various women's empowerment measures are applied and the evidence for how they are differentially related to child ...
Marianne V. Santoso, R. Kerr, J. Hoddinott, Priya Garigipati, Sophia Olmos, S. Young   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Addressing child under nutrition: can traditional practices offer a solution?

Global Health Action, 2017
Child under nutrition continues to be a challenge to global development, especially in resource-poor contexts. In the multifaceted attempts to address this challenge, popular traditional practices, although closely linked to infant health, remain ...
Sarika Chaturvedi, Joanna Raven, Bhushan Patwardhan   +2 more
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