Background: To address gaps in coverage and quality of nutrition services, Alive & Thrive (A&T) strengthened the delivery of maternal nutrition interventions through government antenatal care (ANC) services in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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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.
Background: Maternal nutrition interventions are inadequately integrated into antenatal care (ANC).
Growth faltering is associated with adverse consequences during childhood and later life.
Background: Simple proxy indicators are needed to assess and monitor micronutrient intake adequacy of vulnerable populations.
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.
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.
Preschool-based nutrition-sensitive BCC intervention improved child nutrition in food-insecure Malawi.
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Information diffusion and social norms are associated with infant and young child feeding practices in Bangladesh
Interaction within mothers’ social networks can theoretically diffuse messages from interventions and campaigns into norms and practices for infant and young child feeding (IYCF).
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.
Appropriate infant and young child feeding practices are critical for optimal child growth and development, but in Ethiopia, complementary feeding (CF) practices are very poor.
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.