A5080417598- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Immune responses and vaccinations
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
World Health Organization
2023-2024
United Nations Children's Fund
2015-2020
United Nations Children's Fund Cameroon
2020
United Nations Children's Fund Kosovo
2020
United Nations Children's Fund Niger
2020
United Nations Children's Fund India
2020
Abstract Insufficient quantities and inadequate quality of complementary foods, together with poor feeding practices, pose a threat to children's health nutrition. Interventions improve are critical reduce all forms malnutrition, access data ascertain the status practices is essential for efforts behaviours. However, sufficient generate estimates core indicators covering period only became available recently. The current situation at global regional level reported here using contained within...
Abstract Age‐appropriate complementary feeding practices are far from optimal among low‐ and middle‐income countries with available data. The evidence on the association between linear growth is mixed. We sought to systematically examine two indictors of dietary quality—dietary diversity animal source food (ASF) consumption (WHO, 2008)—and stunting (length‐for‐age z‐score) employing existing data 39 Demographic Health Surveys. Data 74,548 children aged 6–23 months were pooled multiple...
Introduction Evidence on the rate at which double burden of malnutrition unfolds is limited. We quantified trends and inequalities in nutritional status adolescent girls adult women sub-Saharan Africa. Methods analysed 102 Demographic Health Surveys between 1993 2017 from 35 countries. assessed regional through cross-sectional series analyses ran multilevel linear regression models to estimate average annual change (AARC) prevalence underweight, anaemia, anaemia during pregnancy, overweight...
Background Global deworming programs aim to reach 75% of at-risk preschool-age children (pre-SAC) by 2020. The 2013 global pre-SAC coverage initially published the World Health Organization (WHO) was 23.9%, but this estimate inadequately captured delivered through Child Day (CHD) platforms. Objective To update and regional estimates in supplementing data from WHO Preventive Chemotherapy Transmission Control (PCT) databank with national CHD data. Methods UNICEF country offices (n = 82) were...