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.
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Empowering rural women through gender and nutrition education amid the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from Myanmar's Central Dry Zone
The COVID-19 pandemic had negative impacts on nutrition and strained intrahousehold relations, particularly among poorer households.
International standards and policies are clear about women’s right to equality in the enjoyment of all their rights, including rights to access, use, inherit, control and own land.
Adolescent and young women face grave nutrition challenges, but limited evidence exists on solutions to improve their diets.
The Global Diet Quality Score is associated with nutrient adequacy and depression among Vietnamese youths
The Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) has been recommended as a simple diet quality metric that is reflective of both nutrient adequacy and noncommunicable disease outcomes.
Adolescence is a sensitive transition time that affects rights, roles, and responsibilities in food choice, yet limited evidence exists on dietary intakes during this critical period.
Rationale and objective: Improving diet quality while decreasing environmental impacts is an important challenge for a healthy and sustainable food system.
Gender gaps in land rights: Explaining different measures and why households differ in Myanmar
Measuring and understanding gender differences in property rights is key to informing policy decisions and guiding investments aimed at fostering gender equality. However, there are a myriad ways of assessing property rights.
Background: There is limited evidence from prospective cohorts in low-resource settings on the long-term impact of pre-pregnancy body mass index (PPBMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on postpartum weight retention (PPWR) and maternal and child
Long-term association between maternal preconception hemoglobin concentration, 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.
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.
Measuring empowerment across the value chain: The evolution of the project-level Women’s Empowerment Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI)
Many development agencies design and implement interventions that aim to reach, benefit, and empower rural women across the value chain in activities ranging from production, to processing, to marketing.
Micronutrient deficiencies such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and vitamin A, constitute a severe global public health phenomenon.
Considerable literature from low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) links maternal employment to child nutritional status.
This paper empirically investigates the role of off-farm and non-agricultural activities in Myanmar’s rural sector, based primarily on the nationally representative MLCS 2016/17.
Understanding maternal food choice for preschool children across urban–rural settings in Vietnam
Improving diet quality of preschool children is challenging in countries undergoing food environment and nutrition transition.
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