Announcement
Jun 01 2020
The Maternal, Infant, Young Child & Adolescent Nutrition Update newsletter
Click below to read past editions of the MIYCAN Update is Alive & Thrive's quarterly global newsletter.
Brief
Feb 11 2020
Maternal Depression: The potential role of nutrition in prevention and treatment
Journal article
Nov 15 2019
Predictors of exclusive breastfeeding across three time points in Bangladesh (Blackstone SR., 2018. International Health)
This study explored predictors of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in Bangladesh using data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey from 2007, 2011, and 2014, focusing on reasons why rates of EBF changed over those time periods.
Journal article
Aug 01 2019
Does health worker performance affect clients’ health behaviors? A multilevel analysis from Bangladesh (Epstein, A., 2019. BMC Health Services Research)
In this study, reseearchers found evidence for an association between health worker compliance and client health behaviors; however, small effect sizes suggest that behavior change is multifactorial and affected by factors beyond care quality.
Announcement
Jun 12 2019
Investing in Child Nutrition e-learning course
Investing in Child Nutrition is a free, publicly available online course designed to provide guidance, skills, and practical information to health workers to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding and com
Journal article
Feb 15 2019
The effect of the Alive & Thrive initiative on exclusive breastfeeding in rural Burkina Faso: a repeated cross-sectional cluster randomised controlled trial (Cresswell J., 2019. Lancet Global Health)
The benefits of exclusive breastfeeding on mortality, health, and development of children have been well documented.