Background: Bangladesh is urbanizing rapidly, facing challenges of malnutrition, low coverage and poor quality of urban nutrition services.
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Long-term association between maternal preconception hemoglobin concentration, anemia, and child health and development in Vietnam
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The long-term association between preconception maternal hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations and child health and development is unclear.
Background: One-third of preschool children in Myanmar were stunted in 2015–2016, and three-quarters of children 6–23 mo had inadequate diet diversity.
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Long term association between of maternal preconception hemoglobin and anemia and child health and development in Vietnam
Background: The long-term association between preconception maternal hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations and child health and development is unclear.
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Respondent fatigue reduces dietary diversity scores reported from mobile phone surveys in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background: The computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) has been used extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the effects of respondent fatigue during these interviews on responses to questions about diet are unknown.
Background; Anemia and suboptimal gestational weight gain (GWG) are associated with adverse maternal and birth outcomes. Limited research indicates that balanced energy-protein (BEP) supplements reduce the incidence of inadequate GWG.
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Social assistance programs and birth outcomes: A systematic review and assessment of nutrition and health pathways
A systematic review and assessment of nutrition and health pathways that evaluate the impacts of social assistance programs on outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may substantially affect health systems, but little primary evidence is available on disruption of health and nutrition services.
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COVID-19-induced disruptions of school feeding services exacerbate food insecurity in Nigeria
These disruptions in educational and nutritional services have exacerbated households’ food insecurity in Nigeria.
Growth faltering is associated with adverse consequences during childhood and later life.
Little is known about the impact of food-assisted maternal and child health programs (FA-MCHN) on child wasting.
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Stunting and wasting among Indian preschoolers have moderate but significant associations with the vegetarian status of their mothers
Background: India has high rates of child undernutrition and widespread lactovegetarianism.
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Increased iron status during a feeding trial of iron-biofortified beans increases physical work efficiency in Rwandan women
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Iron-biofortified staple foods can improve iron status and resolve iron deficiency. However, whether improved iron status from iron biofortification can improve physical performance remains unclear.
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Tubaramure increased household food security and energy and micronutrient consumption, and maternal and child dietary diversity in Burundi.
Improvements in economic conditions over a decade in India led to declines in undernutrition as well as increases in overweight among adolescents and women.
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs are widely used to reduce household food insecurity and maternal and child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries.
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The relative caloric prices of healthy and unhealthy foods differ systematically across income levels and continents
Relative prices of healthy/unhealthy foods have been implicated in the obesity epidemic, but never extensively quantified across countries or empirically linked to undernutrition.
Child development is affected by multiple factors throughout pregnancy and childhood. Multisectoral programs addressing these factors may improve children's development.
Food for education (FFE) programs that include school meals are widely used to improve school participation and performance, but evidence on nutritional benefits is limited.