Handout

Nov 04 2014

Let your baby exclusively breastfeed for the first six months

This fan promotes early and exclusive breastfeeding and was distributed to mothers in Viet Nam.

Journal article

Nov 01 2014

Gaps between breastfeeding awareness and practices in Vietnamese mothers (Nguyen TT., 2014. Journal of Nutrition)

An Alive & Thrive (A&T) study in Viet Nam examined determinants of the gap between breastfeeding awareness and practices.

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

Sep 16 2014

Organizational factors, planning capacity, and integration challenges constrain provincial planning processes for nutrition in decentralizing Viet Nam (Lapping, K., 2014. Food and Nutrition Bulletin)

Translating national policies and guidelines into effective action at the subnational level is a prerequisite for ensuring an impact on nutrition. In Viet Nam this process is affected by the quality of the decentralized process of planning and action.

Journal article

Sep 03 2014

Gaps between breastfeeding awareness and practices in mothers result from inadequate support in health facilities and social norms

An Alive & Thrive (A&T) study in Viet Nam examined determinants of the gap between breastfeeding awareness and practices.

Journal article

Aug 01 2014

Suboptimal breastfeeding practices are associated with infant illness in Viet Nam (Hajeebjoy N., 2014. International Breastfeeding Journal)

Despite evidence supporting the importance of breastfeeding to child health, breastfeeding practices remain suboptimal in Viet Nam. There is currently little evidence on the importance of breastfeeding in the prevention of morbidity during infancy in Viet Nam.

 
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