Malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and non-communicable diseases


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Communicable diseases and severe food shortage situations

15/07/2005 - The combination of communicable diseases (CDs) and malnutrition is the most prevalent public health problem in the world today; together they are responsible for millions of preventable deaths [...]

Thematic Guidelines, Nutrition and Health; Guidelines for the use of Nutritional Information in VAM

01/03/2005 - Guidelines developed for VAM staff on how to collect and interpret nutrition information. Useful for staff unfamiliar with nutrition indicators and includes how to assess nutrition status and the [...]

A Manual: Measuring and Interpreting Malnutrition and Mortality

28/02/2005 - The purpose of this manual is 1) To provide guidance on issues relating to nutrition and mortality surveys 2) To standardize survey methodology used by WFP staff, consultants and implementing partners [...]

Estimated Economic Benefits of Reducing Low Birth Weight in Low-Income Countries

01/06/2004 - Low birth weight (LBW) is a major contributor to infant mortality. Beyond that, reducing low birth weight could result in appreciable economic benefits. The present paper considers the potential [...]

Low Birthweight: Country, Regional and Global Estimates

30/03/2004 - The reduction of low birthweight forms an important contribution to the Millennium Development Goal for reducing child mortality. But more than half of the infants born in the developing world are not [...]

Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children

15/05/2003 - GUIDELINES with specific instructions for the treatment of severely malnourished children. The aim is to provide practical help for those responsible for the medical and dietary management of such [...]

Anemia Prevention and Control: What Works Part 1 and 2

31/03/2003 - What Works has two purposes: To bring to the attention of program and project managers of health and related activities the serious negative consequences of anemia for the health and physical, [...]

Food Policy Options: Preventing and Controlling Nutrition Related Non-Communicable Diseases

20/11/2002 - Although diet structure and activity throughout the developing world have shifted drastically over the past several decades, little is known about effective policies to influence the supply and demand [...]

Improving Nutrition through Nuclear Science

15/01/2002 - The World Bank has not yet defined the main issues in management and capacity development in nutrition, nor has it developed methodologies for governments and project staff to identify and deal with [...]

Identifying, evaluating, and treating overweight and obesity in adults

31/03/2001 - National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States of America recently cooperated on the production of a guide to identifying, evaluating, and treating overweight and obesity in adults. The [...]

Pellagra and its prevention and control in major emergencies

31/03/2000 - This document is a review of pellagra. Pellagra results from a niacin and/or tryptophan deficient diet. Earliest recorded reports of pellagra were made almost 250 years ago. The condition quickly [...]

Ending Malnutrition by 2020: An Agenda for Change in the Millennium

15/02/2000 - To live a life without malnutrition is a fundamental human right. The persistence of malnutrition, especially among children and mothers, in this world of plenty is immoral. Nutrition improvement [...]

Management of the Child with a Serious Infection or Severe Malnutrition

01/02/2000 - A MANUAL for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first referral level in developing countries. It presents [...]

Scurvy and its prevention and control in major emergencies

31/05/1999 - Although this document is intended primarily as a backdrop for interventions involving refugees, it is also suitable as a guide for ensuring adequate vitamin C intake in most emergency settings. It [...]

Thiamine deficiency and its prevention and control in major emergencies

30/05/1999 - This is a document on thiamine deficiency, which looks at the risk factors leading to outbreaks of thiamine deficiency, describes the signs and symptoms of the deficiency disease, and discusses the [...]

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