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May 07 2019

Maternal nutrition practices in Uttar Pradesh, India: role of key influential demand and supply factors (Nguyen PH., 2019. Maternal Child Nutrition)

Despite strong policy and program commitment, essential maternal nutrition services are not reaching enough women in many countries.

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Feb 15 2019

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May 01 2018

Dietary diversity predicts the adequacy of micronutrient intake in pregnant adolescent girls and women in Bangladesh, but use of the 5-group cutoff poorly identifies individuals with inadequate intake (Nguyen PH., 2018. Journal of Nutrition)

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator based on a 10-food group women dietary diversity score (WDDS-10) has been validated to assess dietary quality in nonpregnant women.

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Apr 13 2017

Estimates of the quality of complementary feeding among Vietnamese infants aged 6-23 months varied by how commercial baby cereals were classified in 24-h recalls (Nguyen, T., 2015. Global Public Health)

The World Health Organization's (WHO) standardized questionnaire for assessing infant and young child feeding practices does not include commercial baby cereals (CBC), which are derived from several food groups and are fortified with micronutrients.

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Apr 01 2017

Social franchising and a nationwide mass media campaign increased the prevalence of adequate complementary feeding in Viet Nam: a cluster-randomized program evaluation (Rawat R., 2017. Journal of Nutrition)

Alive & Thrive (A&T) applied principles of social franchising within the government health system in Viet Nam to improve the quality of interpersonal counseling (IPC) for complementary feeding (CF).

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Jan 25 2017

Changes in underlying determinants explain rapid increases in child linear growth in Alive & Thrive study areas between 2010 and 2014 in Bangladesh and Viet Nam (Nguyen PH., 2016. Journal of Nutrition)

This study aimed to better understand what changes in underlying socioeconomic characteristics and behavioral factors are important in explaining improvements in child linear growth in A&T study areas in Bangladesh and Viet Nam.

 
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