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Challenges and opportunities of integration of community based Management of Acute Malnutrition into the government health system in Bangladesh: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children is the most serious form of malnutrition and is associated with very high rates of morbidity and mortality.
Santhia Ireen, Mohammad Jyoti Raihan, Nuzhat Choudhury, M. Munirul Islam, Md Iqbal Hossain, Ziaul Islam, S. M. Mustafizur Rahman, Tahmeed Ahmed   +7 more
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Mid-upper-arm circumference based case-detection, admission, and discharging of under five children in a large-scale community-based management of acute malnutrition program in Nigeria

Archives of Public Health, 2018
Background Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) threatens the lives of millions of children worldwide particularly in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Stanley Chitekwe, Sibhatu Biadgilign, Assaye Tolla, Mark Myatt   +3 more
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Evaluation of CMAM/IYCF Monitoring Program in Ethiopia

, 2019
The CMAM/IYCF program evaluation is an evaluation made to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability related to the CMAM/IYCF program.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Ethiopia
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Gender-Related Barriers to Service Access and uptake in nutrition programmes identified during coverage assessments

World Nutrition, 2017
Background Approximately 17 million children under five years suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Although the most frequent barriers to service access in Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programmes have already been ...
Ines Zuza, Beatriz Pérez Bernabé, Clara Ituero, Sanjay Kumar, Sophie Woodhead, Eleanor Rogers, Jose Luis Alvarez Moran   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Burden of Nutritional Deficiencies: A Systematic Analysis for the GBD 2021. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Nutritional deficiencies (ND) remain a major global health challenge, significantly affecting population well‐being. As part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, we conducted a comprehensive assessment of the prevalence, incidence, mortality, and disability‐adjusted life years (DALYs) attributed to ND from 1990 to ...
Nong S, Deng R, Zhang X.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Lunar and solar FTIR nitric acid measurements at Eureka in winter 2001/2002: comparisons with observations at Thule and Kiruna and with CMAM and SLIMCAT model calculations [PDF]

, 2007
For the first time, vertical column measurements of (HNO3) above the Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory (AStrO) at Eureka (80N, 86W), Canada, have been made during polar night using lunar spectra recorded with a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR ...
McLandress, C., Hannigan, J. W., Coffey, M. T., Strong, K, Mikuteit, S., Mittermeier, R. L., Makino, Y., Blumenstock, T., Strong, K., Shepherd, T. G., Raffalski, U., Chipperfield, M. P., Fast, H., Hase, F., Coffey, M., Farahani, E., Farahani, F.   +16 more
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Foregrounding 'Community' in Community Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition

World Nutrition, 2017
The issue of widespread food insecurity amongst children in Africa and Asia has often been narrowed to the discourse on 'severe acute malnutrition (SAM)' in the last decade. Further, conflicting notions exist in relation to the root causes and solutions
Vandana Prasad
doaj   +1 more source

Persistence and photochemical decay of springtime total ozone anomalies in the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2007
The persistence and decay of springtime total ozone anomalies over the entire extratropics (midlatitudes plus polar regions) is analysed using results from the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (CMAM), a comprehensive chemistry-climate model.
S. Tegtmeier, S. Tegtmeier, T. G. Shepherd   +2 more
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Nutrition status and morbidity of Ethiopian children after recovery from severe acute malnutrition: Prospective matched cohort study.

PLoS ONE, 2022
After recovery, children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remain vulnerable to sub-optimal growth and malnutrition relapse. Although there is an increased interest in understanding these problems, data are scarce, and contextual factors can cause ...
Tsinuel Girma, Philip T James, Alemseged Abdissa, Hanqi Luo, Yesufe Getu, Yilak Fantaye, Kate Sadler, Paluku Bahwere   +7 more
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Double-Blind Parallel Treatment Randomized Controlled Trial of Prebiotics’ Efficacy for Children Experiencing Severe Acute Malnutrition in Southern Punjab, Pakistan

Children, 2023
The prevalence of malnutrition among children under five is alarmingly high in Pakistan. However, there are ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) available which may be used to treat children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
Munazza Batool, Javeria Saleem, Rubeena Zakar, Sanaullah Iqbal, Ruhma Shahzad, Muhammad Salman Butt, Shahroz Haider, Florian Fischer   +7 more
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