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El Progreso de las Naciones 1999 La edición de 1999 contempla las devastadoras consecuencias del VIH/SIDA y de la "carga de la deuda" sobre el desarrollo, la salud y la educación de los niños y las familias en algunos de los países menos adelantados. El Progreso de las Naciones analiza también las medidas que se han tomado y los avances alcanzados en la vacunación infantil y en la... Published in 1999, by |
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Food and Nutrition Needs in Emergencies UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and WHO have jointly developed these guidelines as a practical tool for assessing, estimating and monitoring the food and nutrition needs of populations in emergencies. Published in 2003, by |
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Food consumption in Mexican adolescents 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 |
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Guidelines for estimating the month and year of birth of young children A child’s age is an essential piece of information for evaluating the many facets of children’s nutritional status. These guidelines are intended for health care workers, survey trainers and other persons who need to collect accurate information on child age in situations where there is no accurate written record of date of birth or a tradition of remembering birth dates. Published in 2008, by |
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Health in the Americas - Overview of Regional Health This document is one chapter "Overview of Regional Health" from the PAHO publication "Health in the Americas". This 2007 edition of Health in the Americas presents a broad picture of the regional situation and that of all the countries with regard to health and human development; specific disease conditions and risk factors; environmental health, and the... Published in 2007, by |
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Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Operational Guidance for Emergency Relief Staff and Programme Managers Operational guidance intended for emergency relief staff and programme managers of all agencies working in emergency programmes, including national governments, UN agencies, NGOs and donors. It applies to emergency situations in all countries, and extends to non-emergency situations. Published in 2007, by |
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La Desnutrición en Lactantes y Niños Pequeños en América Latina y El Caribe: Alcanzando los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio Este informe sobre el crecimiento de los niños durante los últimos 20 años en 13 países de América Latina y El Caribe pretende ser una herramienta de utilidad para la lucha contra la desnutrición. Investiga los patrones de retraso del crecimiento específicos para la edad y las variaciones que existen al interior y entre los países y considera la... Published in 2008, by |
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Le progrès des nations 1999 Le rapport de 1999 examine l'impact dévastateur du VIH/SIDA et du « fardeau de la dette » sur le développement, la santé et l'éducation des enfants et de leurs familles dans certains des pays les plus pauvres du monde. Le progrès des nations fait aussi état des mesures prises et des succès remportés dans les domaines de la vaccination des enfants... Published in 1999, by |
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Malnutrition in Infants and Young Children in Latin America and the Caribbean: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals This comprehensive report on the growth of children over the last 20 years in 13 Latin America and Caribbean countries provides a useful tool in the fight against malnutrition. Primary data analysis of nationally representative surveys provides a thorough assessment of the prevalence of malnutrition, age-specific patterns of poor growth, and variations in... Published in 2008, by |
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Measuring Mortality, Nutritional Status, and Food Security in Crisis Situations - SMART Methodology version 1 A manual detailing a basic integrated method for assessing nutritional status and mortality rate in emergency situations. It includes details of hot to use the Nutrisurvey software for analysing data. The software can be downloaded from http://www.nutrisurvey.de/ena/ena.html. The manual is aimed at host government partners and humanitarian organisations as... Published in 2006, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 07 - Appropriate Uses of Anthropometric Indices in Children The use of anthropometry has increased rapidly in recent years. With this wider use, it has become even more important that the interpretation of results, for the individual and for populations, should be correct and well understood. I requested the Advisory Group on Nutrition at its first meeting in 1988 to help to define the issues. This led to the AGN... Published in 1990, by |
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Out with the old? In with the new? Implications of the new WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards Presentation of how the growth standards published by WHO will affect assessment (individual and population). Published in 2006, by |
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Population Challenges and Development Goals The present report has two objectives. First, it presents a succinct overview of demographic trends worldwide, for major areas and selected countries. It covers population size and growth, urbanization and city growth, population ageing, fertility and contraception, mortality and international migration. Second, the report considers the contribution of the... Published in 2005, by |
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Progrès pour les enfants : un bilan de la nutrition (No. 4) Le présent bilan – le quatrième d’une série de l’UNICEF qui surveille les progrès accomplis en faveur des enfants – mesure les résultats obtenus au plan mondial dans le domaine de la nutrition, en prenant comme indicateur principal le pourcentage d’enfants de moins de cinq ans présentant une insuffi sance pondérale. La communauté... Published in 2006, by |
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Progreso para la infancia: un balance sobre la nutrición (No. 4) El propósito de este balance –el cuarto de una serie de balances preparados por UNICEF para realizar un seguimiento sobre el progreso de la infancia hacia los ODM– es evaluar el desempeño mundial en materia de nutrición, tomando como indicador básico la prevalencia de peso inferior al normal entre los niños y niñas menores de cinco años. Aun... Published in 2006, by |
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Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition (No. 4) This report card – the fourth in a UNICEF series that monitors progress for children towards the MDGs – measures the world’s performance on nutrition, taking the prevalence of underweight among children under five as its primary indicator. The global community promised to cut the proportion of underweight children by half between 1990 and 2015, but we... Published in 2006, by |
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Progress of Nations 1999 The 1999 edition looks at the devastating impact of both HIV/AIDS and the 'debt burden' on the development, health and education of children and families in some of the poorest countries. The Progress of Nations 1999 also charts the steps taken and the progress made in child immunization and in the eradication of vitamin A deficiency. Published in 1999, by |
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SCN News No 05 - Nutrition and School Performance The education of children all over the world is being held back by malnutrition. In humanitarian terms, it makes no sense that the children who manage to get to school cannot benefit fully from their education, because they are already malnourished, because they are currently hungry, or because of infection. Nearly 90% of the world's school children will be... Published in 1990, by |
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SCN News No 13 - Behavioural Change and Nutrition Programmes; Poor Nutrition and Chronic Disease This issue of SCN News features a report of discussions at the ACC/SCN symposium on behavioural change and nutrition programmes as well as a report of the proceedings of the ACC/SCN symposium on nutrition in the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and obesity in developing countries. Published in 1995, by |
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Social inequality and child malnutrition in four Andean countries 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 |
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Targeting Food Aid in Emergencies - Special Supplement This report supplement is intended to provide guidance on the design of food targeting systems in emergencies. Targeting is defined as directing a particular type or quantity of food, to a defined population group. A broad definition of emergency contexts has been used, to include rapid and slow onset emergencies and responses aimed at emergency... Published in 2004, by |
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Training course on Child Growth Assessment This course has been designed for health care providers who measure and assess the growth of children or supervise these activities. It teaches the skills and knowledge needed to measure the weight and length/height of children; plot and interpret growth measurements; and counsel mothers about growth and feeding. Course participants may include... Published in 2006, by |