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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge Management
The report documents evidence of health inequities and country experiences advancing health equity, and provides recommendations to health sector decision-makers for country-level action.
Chronic Iron Deficiency and Cognitive Function in Early Childhood
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Early Childhood DevelopmentMicronutrient Interventions
After receiving oral iron, children with chronic iron deficiency demonstrated improved iron status, but continued to have lower cognitive scores compared with children with initial iron sufficiency. Future research could examine outcomes of a screening strategy for the early detection of iron deficiency using serum ferritin. This article is behind a paywall.
Improving Food Systems in Secondary Cities, What Can Be Accomplished Through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration?
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Capacity StrengtheningFood Systems
Multi-stakeholder platforms that include researchers, policymakers, farmers, and small-scale processors provide significant support for the functionality and increased sustainability of food systems. The report discusses next steps to improve governance and explores novel mixed-farming methods to encourage more diverse diets.
Guidance for the Use of Standard and Non-Standard Recipes in Quantitative 24-Hour Dietary Recall Surveys: The Simple Ingredient Method
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Authors recommend a simplified calculation method for mixed dishes that allows for disaggregating recipe data to the ingredient level. Identifying ingredient proportions requires collecting or estimating the quantity of each ingredient used and the amount in the prepared mixed dish. Survey planners must explore the pros and cons of collecting standard or nonstandard recipe data.
Identifying and Interrupting Fecal-Oral Pathways in Young Children
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Knowledge ManagementInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This guide helps Resilience Food Security Activity implementing partners determine whether they need to conduct research to identify and prioritize fecal-oral pathways for infants and young children. It provides guidance about how to design formative research activities and explores appropriate data collection methods for measuring the effectiveness of interventions.
Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
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Food SystemsFood Systems
We know that generating consumer demand for safe and nutritious foods is key to improving global nutrition. High-quality and successful marketing campaigns that improve nutrition outcomes include several components.
Mapping and Gap Analysis of Tools for Complementary Feeding in Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsComplementary FeedingEmergency Nutrition
Recognizing the importance of protecting, maintaining, and potentially improving the diets of children under the age of two, there has been an increased focus on supporting infant and young child feeding in emergency contexts in recent years.
Bringing New Evidence on Undernutrition and Mortality Risk Into Practice
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Early Childhood DevelopmentEmergency Nutrition
This study aims to test whether weight-for-age (WFA) and MUAC can be effectively utilised in existing programmes to capture these children with single and dual deficits and reach considerably more children at a high risk of death.
Review of Experiences and Direction on Complementary Feeding in Emergencies (CFE): Putting Policy Into Practice
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Early Childhood DevelopmentBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This review indicates that the provisions of the Operational Guidance on IFE regarding CFE are not being met. Worryingly, we identified no clear examples of strong CFE preparedness and response; most KIs described common shortfalls and challenges, from coordination and leadership to resourcing, supply chain and poor inter-sector coordination and collaboration.
Finding the Best Criteria to Identify Children at High Risk of Mortality
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Adolescent Nutrition
Being concurrently wasted and stunted (WaSt), even at moderate levels, is associated with considerable excess mortality in children comparable to that associated with severe wasting.
Response to Malnutrition Treatment in Low Weight-For-Age Children: Secondary Analyses of Children 6-59 Months in the Compas Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
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Acute MalnutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Weight-for-age z-score is not an admission criterion to therapeutic feeding programs & children with low WAZ at high risk of mortality may not be admitted.
Boys are More Likely to be Undernourished Than Girls: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in Undernutrition
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Gender
Excess male morbidity and mortality is well recognised in neonatal medicine and infant health. In contrast, within global nutrition, it is commonly assumed that girls are more at risk of experiencing undernutrition. We explore evidence for any male/female differences in child undernutrition using anthropometric case definitions and the reasons for differences observed.
Research Methods for Studies Looking at the Relationship Between Wasting and Stunting
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Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This technical brief shares the extensive experience of the Wasting and Stunting Technical Interest Group (WaSt-TIG) in scrutinising data through the lens of the relationship between wasting and stunting in the hope that it will inspire and facilitate others to do the same.