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Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost effective addition to high frequency food security monitoring
The affordability of nutritious food for “all people, at all times” is a critically important dimension of food security.
The cost and cost effectiveness of an integrated wasting prevention and screening intervention package in Burkina Faso and Mali
Background
Little is known about costs and cost-effectiveness of interventions that integrate wasting prevention into screening for child wasting.
Food systems interventions for nutrition: Lessons from six program evaluations in Africa and South Asia
While there is growing global momentum behind food systems strategies to improve planetary and human health—including nutrition—there is limited evidence of what types of food systems interventions work.
Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and its linkages with undernutrition in India
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme has been the central focus of the POSHAN Abhiyaan to combat maternal and child malnutrition under the national nutrition mission in India.
Poor diet quality (diet diversity and animal-source food [ASF] consumption) during childhood negatively affects growth, development, behaviour and physiologic function in later life.
Understanding the drivers of improvements in child undernutrition at only the national level can mask subnational differences.
The relationships between optimal infant feeding practices and child development and attained height at age 2 years and 6–7 years
Limited evidence exists on the long-term effects of early feeding practices on child growth and development. We examined the relationships between infant feeding practices and child height and development at ages 2 and 6–7 years.
Behavior change interventions to address unhealthy food consumption: A scoping review
High intakes of sodium, sugar, saturated fats, and trans fats contributed to 187.7 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) from non-communicable diseases globally.
Growth patterns of preterm and small for gestational age children during the first 10 years of life
Background: Preterm and small for gestational age (SGA) remain significant public health concerns worldwide. Yet limited evidence exists on their growth patterns during childhood from low-or middle-income countries.
Centering context when characterizing food environments: The potential of participatory mapping to inform food environment research
Food environments are a critical place within the food system to implement interventions aimed at enabling sustainable diets.
Children in Malawi face high rates of malnutrition and are at risk of not reaching their developmental potential.
Availability of national polices, programmes, and survey-based coverage data to track nutrition interventions in South Asia
Progress to improve nutrition among women, infants and children in South Asia has fallen behind the pace needed to meet established global targets.
Background: Mental health and behavior problems are under-recognized in low- and middle- income countries, especially in young children.
Growth faltering in children (low length for age or low weight for length) during the first 1,000 days of life (from conception to 2 years of age) influences short-term and long-term health and survival1,2.
In rural sub-Saharan Africa, where malnutrition in all its forms is rife, the greatest gap between the availability of foods and the foods needed for a nutritious diet are faced during the ‘hunger season’.
Background The Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) is a rapid dietary assessment tool designed to enable feasible measuring and monitoring of diet quality at population level in the general public.