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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Child Malnutrition"”.
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Family Structure and Child Malnutrition in China: Three Essays
<p>Over the past three decades, the phenomenon of children's health in China has been marked by a co-existence of overweight and underweight. As the primary institution for a child, family is an opportune place for child malnutrition intervention. By advancing a framework that addresses the …
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Factors Contributing to Child Malnutrition in the Informal Settlement of Inanda Area, eThekwini Municipality.
… advancements in post-apartheid South Africa, malnutrition is the primary cause of child morbidity and mortality and has adverse effects on the economy. Malnutrition is determined by multidimensional factors that differ with geographical location. Informal settlements are socially marginalized …
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Why growth monitoring fails : an exploratory study of child malnutrition intervention in a rural African area
… is a primary health care approach to prevent child malnutrition in under-developed areas promoted by a variety of development agencies, particularly UNICEF, as a part of the "child survival revolution." It involves weighing children regularly and plotting their weights on a growth chart …
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Inpatient household economic burden of child malnutrition in Zimbabwe : a case study conducted at Harare Central hospital
Severe acute malnutrition is one of the leading underlying causes of mortality in children under the age of five years. Nearly one to two million child deaths worldwide can be attributable to this illness. Although it is considered to be a global public health issue, severe acute malnutrition …
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Maternal Exposure to Violence and Child Malnutrition in LMICs: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study in Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda
Maternal Exposure to Violence and Child Malnutrition in LMICs: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study in Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda Background: Violence against women by an intimate partner is a serious human rights and public health concern, especially in low-and-middle-income countries …
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Child malnutrition mortality at St Barnabas Hospital is high - is it due to practices and attitudes of staff?: a study in a rural district hospital
The case fatality rate for malnutrition at St Barnabas Hospital over the past years has been around 38%. The rates in other district hospitals in the Eastern Cape province were found to be in excess of 30%. In June 2000, the Eastern Cape Department of Health introduced a protocol for in-patient …
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Two essays on food security in Zimbabwe
… in order to mitigate the harmful effects such as child malnutrition. This thesis will examine the causes and effect of household food security in the case of Zimbabwe. The first essay examines the determinants of food security, focusing on economic wealth and social networks. It was found that …
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Estudio de pre-factibilidad para la instalación de una planta productora de compotas a base de aguaymanto (Physalis peruviana), camote amarillo (Ipomoea batatas) y quinua blanca (Chenopodium quinoa)
… avoids suffering from diseases such as Chronic Child Malnutrition (CCM) and anemia due to iron deficiency.
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Effects of Credit, Income Diversification and Other Factors on Child Nutrition in Malawi
… No significant effects of access to credit on child nutritional status were found. Same-sex parental preference for child nutrition was found. Infrastructural variables are determined to have the most significant influence in reducing child malnutrition levels. Access to credit is a new measure …
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Economic Development and Child Nutrition in Nepal
Child malnutrition rates in Nepal are among the highest in the world. Government and non-governmental agencies are actively seeking various pathways that might be useful to improve child nutrition outcomes in Nepal, fill gaps in understanding surrounding nutrition drivers, and shorten the time …
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Essays on the economics of tobacco and alcohol control policy in Kenya
… on fruits. Chapter 3 uses the risk of child malnutrition in Kenya, to examine the effectiveness of tobacco and alcohol control policies, in reducing tobacco and alcohol consumption prevalence among vulnerable households. Past studies in this literature did not explicitly control for …
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Assessing the Economic Potential of Nutrient-Dense Foods Supply Chain in Ethiopia
The prevalence of child malnutrition in Africa is alarming. Currently, almost six million children under age five are suffering from this problem in Ethiopia. Reducing child malnutrition requires a multi-pronged approach that includes nutritious foods, improved hygiene, and breastfeeding. Poverty …
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Perfil clínico-epidemiológico y evolución del paciente pediátrico en el servicio de recuperación nutricional del Hospital Nacional San Juan de Dios de San Miguel periodo 2018- 2019
… evolución, seguimiento. ABSTRACT: Child malnutrition is one of the important health problems in El Salvador, due to its high prevalence and its association with high infant mortality rates. This problem has a transcendental impact on the growth and development of the child …
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Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, Africa, and West Germany, 1960-1985
… wars, student activisms, refugee migrations, child malnutrition, capitalist-socialist economic development, novel media forms, Holocaust memories, and new African diasporas. To define and explain the interrelation of the humanitarian and the political, this dissertation uses the concept of …
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An anthropological exploration of the effects of family cash transfers on the diets of mothers and children in the Brazilian Amazon
… transfers are made on the condition that their children meet education (minimum school attendance) and health requirements (vaccinations). Since itsinauguration in 2003 (current incarnation), there have been many evaluations of the BFP concerning its impact on child nutrition, which have yielded …
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Factors contributing to severe acute malnutrition among the under five children in Francistown-Botswana
Introduction: Malnutrition is the immediate result of inadequate dietary intake, the presence of disease or the interaction between these two factors. It is a complicated problem, an outcome of several etiologies. SAM is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children under the …
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Hungering for Survival: Trends in under-5 malnutrition and attributable disease burden
<italic>Background</italic> Child malnutrition is a known risk factor for a myriad childhood diseases and causes of death, including intestinal infectious diseases, acute respiratory infections, measles, malaria, and protein-energy malnutrition. The nutrition literature lacks estimates of deaths …
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Wealth, health, and inequality: a study of hyperinflation and households in Zimbabwe
… changes in asset poverty, asset inequality and child malnutrition before and after the hyperinflation. The first empirical chapter assesses the shifts in asset poverty. Household holdings of physical assets and recorded access to public utilities are drawn from the 1994, 1999, 2005 …
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The nutritive, rheological and sensory quality of selected indigenous complementary foods used for 6 – 24 months infants and young children in African communities
Child malnutrition remains a major public health problem in low-income African communities, caused by factors including the porridge rheology, poor oral texture quality and low nutritional value of mainly the indigenous/local complementary porridges (CPs), but also some commercially available …
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Addressing health inequalities in South Africa : policy insights and the role of improved efficiency
… status qua and trends in equity as it relates to child morbidity and mortality and self-reported illness and utilization of different service providers in adulthood. Furthermore, an assessment of the technical efficiency and productivity of a sample of public sector hospitals is conducted. This is …
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