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A large-scale distribution of milk-based fortified spreads: evidence for a new approach in regions with high burden of acute malnutrition
Friday, May 3, 2013
In regions with a high burden of malnutrition, the treatment of acutely malnourished children is costly and logistically challenging.
The effects of iron and/or zinc supplementation on maternal reports of sleep in infants from Nepal and Zanzibar
Friday, May 3, 2013
Infants with iron deficiency anemia (IDA) are more likely to be irritable and also tend to wake up more often at night and spend less time in quiet sleep.
Bacterial populations in complementary foods and drinking-water in households with children aged 10-15 months in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Friday, May 3, 2013
In this study, bacterial growth was measured in a fortified instant soy-rice porridge, home-cooked porridge and traditional complementary foods obtained from 54 Tanzanian households.
A review of interventions based on dietary diversification or modification strategies with the potential to enhance intakes of total and absorbable zinc
Friday, May 3, 2013
Dietary diversification or modification strategies at the community or household level have the potential to increase the intake of bioavailable zinc.
Development of food-based complementary feeding recommendations for 9- to 11-month-old peri-urban Indonesian infants using linear programming
Friday, May 3, 2013
A modeling approach was used to develop complementary feeding recommendations for 9- to 11-mo-old Indonesian infants and to identify nutrients that will likely remain low in diets based on currently available local foods.
Caregiver verbal encouragement increases food acceptance among Vietnamese toddlers
Friday, May 3, 2013
These investigators videotaped 91 mother/child pairs in rural Vietnam during two 2-hour feeding episodes to assess whether caregiver encouragement, caregiver and child behaviors, and other feeding characteristics were associated with acceptance of food.
The effect of interrupted 5-day training on integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness on the knowledge and skills of primary health care workers
Friday, May 3, 2013
Making training packages more cost-effective is critical to expanding child health and nutrition programs.
Neonatal care in rural Karnataka: Healthy and harmful practices, the potential for change
Friday, May 3, 2013
Data regarding traditional practices surrounding childbirth and the neonatal period were collected in 11 villages in rural India to better understand practices and beliefs that might be harmful or beneficial to newborn health.
Delayed cord clamping: Advantages for infants
Friday, May 3, 2013
Delayed cord clamping (waiting ~3 min after delivery, or until pulsations cease) confers many benefits to infants. In term infants, it reduces the risk of anemia later in infancy.
Assessment of the effect of psychosocial support during childbirth in Ibadan, south-west Nigeria: a randomised controlled trial
Friday, May 3, 2013
In this hospital-based trial, 585 Nigerian women were randomized to receive psychosocial support during childbirth from a companion of their choice or to routine care (no companion).