Journal article

Aug 31 2015

Maternal willingness to pay for infant and young child nutrition counseling services in Viet Nam (Nguyen, P.H., 2015. Global Health Action)

Alive & Thrive (A&T) Viet Nam, developed and incorporated elements of social franchising into government health services to provide high-quality nutrition counseling services to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices.

Journal article

Dec 01 2014

Journal article

Oct 01 2014

Program impact pathway analysis of a social franchise model shows potential to improve infant and young child feeding practices in Viet Nam (Nguyen PH., 2014. Journal of Nutrition)

By mapping the mechanisms through which interventions are expected to achieve impact, program impact pathway (PIP) analysis lays out the theoretical causal links between program activities, outcomes, and impacts.

Journal article

Oct 02 2013

Household food insecurity is associated with higher child undernutrition but the effect is not mediated by child dietary diversity (Ali D., 2013. Journal of Nutrition)

Household food insecurity (HFI) is a recognized underlying determinant of child undernutrition, but evidence of associations between HFI and child undernutrition is mixed.

Journal article

Sep 18 2013

Introducing infant and young child feeding indicators into national nutrition surveillance systems: lessons from Viet Nam (Hajeebhoy N., 2013. Maternal Child Nutrition)

A comprehensive set of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) indicators for international use was published in 2008. Alive & Thrive (A&T) undertook a process to incorporate these indicators into Viet Nam’s National Nutrition Surveillance System (NNSS).

Journal article

Sep 04 2013

Documenting large-scale programs to improve infant and young child feeding is key to facilitating programs in child nutrition

This article was part of a special supplement in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin on the Alive & Thrive (A&T) project.

 
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