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This issue of Nutrition Policy paper focuses on multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy in developing country settings.

Published in 2009, by United Nations University

There are groups of adolescents who are less likely to consume healthy foods (such as fruits, vegetables, and dairy products). Socioeconomic and cultural processes that can explain the differences observed are discussed. Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2008;24(2):127–35, ISSN 1020-4989, by...

Published in 2008, by PAHO, Ortiz-Hernández, Luis, Gómez-Tello Blanca Lilia

Uno de los principales retos de las autoridades de salud de los países en desarrollo es llevar a cabo intervenciones de eficacia demostrada dirigidas especialmente a las poblaciones de menor acceso a los servicios de salud. Esta tarea se hace difícil por la carencia de intervenciones validadas en ese contexto particular. Al aproximarse la fecha establecida...

Published in 2008, by PAHO

This special issue of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin reports on a WHO/UNICEF/Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) meeting on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children that took place in Geneva on November 21–23, 2005, and brought together some 50 international experts and representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP), the United...

Published in 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Emergency Needs Assessments and the Impact of Food Aid on Local Markets. Briefing paper explaining importance of market analysis for programme managers

Published in 2006, by SENAC - Strengthening Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity

The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of socioeconomic, regional, and ethnic conditions on chronic malnutrition in four Andean countries of South America: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2002, 11(5/6)356-364, ISSN 1020-4989, by Pan...

Published in 2002, by PAHO - OPS, Carlos Larrea , Wilma Freire

The objective of this article is to assess the impact that a mother-to-mother support program operated by La Leche League Guatemala had on early initiation of breast-feeding and on exclusive breast-feeding in peri-urban Guatemala City, Guatemala. Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2002; 12(3),...

Published in 2002, by PAHO, Kirk Dearden, Mekibib Altaye, Irma de Maza, Maritza de Oliva, Maryanne Stone-Jimenez, Barton R. Burkhalter, Ardythe L. Morrow

This review takes the perspective of low-income Asia, because the study was commissioned by the Asian Development Bank to inform its policy dialogue with Asian governments. We believe the review will be useful for ADB and all development partners selecting nutrition interventions as stand-alone activities or components in integrated social development...

Published in 2001, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

This Nutrition Policy Paper is based on the ACC/SCN Symposium on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS held in Nairobi in April 2001. The objective of the symposium was, firstly, to stimulate collaboration between the nutrition and HIV/AIDS communities. The second objective was to examine a broad range of nutrition issues that have a direct bearing on policies and...

Published in 2001, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

This Nutrition Policy Paper was produced by the ACC/SCN in collaboration with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh: Centre for Health and Population Research. It summarizes the proceedings of the Low Birthweight Symposium and Workshop held in Dhaka in June 1999. Evidence regarding interventions to prevent low birthweight and...

Published in 2000, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

This paper presents the results of anthropometric measurements taken of 295 children under 5 years of age from three regions of Honduras that were affected by Hurricane Mitch, a major storm that struck Central America in the fall of 1998. Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2000 8(6):380-384, ISSN...

Published in 2000, by PAHO, Roberto E. Barrios, James P. Stansbury, Rosa Palencia, Marco T. Medina

El presente estudio se hizo con objeto de contribuir a la diseminación de información sobre enfermedades transmitidas por los alimentos (ETA), sus agentes etiológicos y su epidemiología y control. Por último, se describen los procedimientos de prevención y control de las ETA víricas. An abstract in English included: "Viral contamination of food...

Published in 1998, by Carlos K. B. Ferrari, Elisabeth A. F. S. Torres, PAHO - OPS

To accelerate progress in tackling malnutrition, adequate food, health, and care must be ensured throughout the lifecycle. Good nutrition during pregnancy reduces the likelihood of low birth weight and improves pregnancy outcomes. Promotion of growth and development in the young infant and child leads to a well-nourished school-aged child who can participate...

Published in 1998, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

This report presents a collection of papers discussed at the 24th Session of the United Nations Sub-Committee on Nutrition, held in March 1997 in Kathmandu. The Symposium presenters and discussants traced the origins of child malnutrition to low birth weight, maternal deprivation and discrimination against girls and women in South Asia. Malnutrition in the...

Published in 1997, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

This paper aims to summarise the sometimes conflicting information currently available on the nutrition and food security situation in the DPRK. First, it gives some background information - a context in which to understand the current situation. It then summarises the available information and data on nutrition and food security in the country, pointing out...

Published in 1997, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Viewing improved nutrition as an outcome of development processes expands the area of concern for policy-makers and practitioners who seek to combat malnutrition. These processes operate at different levels in society, from (he individual through to the whole arena of governmental policy and indeed international relationships. The SCN, in deciding on...

Published in 1996, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

With the recent publication of "Effectiveness of Vitamin A Supplementation in the Control of Young Child Morbidity and Mortality in Developing Countries" as ACC/SCN Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No. 13, we now know more about the type and degree of positive benefits of raising vitamin A status among deprived populations. After the findings of the...

Published in 1994, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

In the past, critics of food aid have argued that it encourages dependency, both by undermining incentives to local food production as well as biasing tastes towards imported commodities. However, as we approach the mid-1990s, there is now a growing understanding that -- when managed appropriately - food aid can provide a positive boost to food security, at...

Published in 1993, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

This report presents conclusive evidence that improving the vitamin A status of young children reduced mortality rates by about 23%. The evidence relates to population groups in which there was evidence that vitamin A deficiency was sufficiently prevalent and sufficiently severe to give rise to at least a low prevalence of clinical signs of deficiency.

Published in 1993, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

The fact remains that, at the community level, family planning services are quite separate from nutrition and health interventions despite their reinforcing effects. It is another reflection of the trend towards segmental primary health care which we have witnessed in the last ten years. What the field does, is usually what the centre decides and provides -...

Published in 1992, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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