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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Childhood malnutrition"”.
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Putting teeth into the developmental origins hypothesis: A longitudinal study of early childhood malnutrition, enamel hypoplasia and adolescent health in Amazonian Bolivia
Adult teeth may chronologically reflect early childhood experience because enamel on the permanent teeth calcifies incrementally during early childhood and is sensitive to physiological stress. Defects in the enamel do not repair after occurrence or during the life course, leaving a permanent …
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Modelling malnutrition among under-five-year-old children in Ghana
Childhood malnutrition is a real-life and a chronic problem and one of the global major public health challenges, especially in developing countries like Ghana. Several attempts from governmental and non-governmental organizations to address the problem have fallen below expectation. It is …
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Comparison of growth curve models for assessing height in a South African birth cohort
Childhood malnutrition is a major concern in low- to middle- income populations. This dissertation uses longitudinal data on height measurements of babies between 0 and 4 years of age to construct growth curves, which serve as a tool for assessing the health and nutritional progress of children. We …
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Three essays in environmental health
This dissertation examines early childhood malnutrition, focusing on the role played by environmental shocks in determining health outcomes of children exposed to them. In the light of rapid climatic changes affecting human capital, Chapter 1 is one of the first to explore the prenatal channel of …
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Rice bran supplementation modulates environmental enteric dysfunction markers and serum metabolites in weaning Nicaraguan infants
… to improve nutritional security, reduce childhood malnutrition, and mitigate environmental enteric dysfunction (EED). The objective was to analyze the effects of dietary RB supplementation on growth, EED biomarkers, and serum metabolites in healthy, weaning infants from six-to-twelve …
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The double burden of malnutrition in South Africa: risk factors for undernutrition and overnutrition and the development of a novel mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) screening tool in children
… has produced recommendations for screening for malnutrition in childhood. However, evidence is emerging that the performance of these tools is region-specific. The aim of this set of six studies were to identify contextual factors which contribute to childhood malnutrition and assess the …
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Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Monitoring and Evaluation Protocol for a Malnutrition Rehabilitation Program in a Resource-Limited Setting
… nearly 7 million children die each year and malnutrition contributes to almost half of these cases. Malnourished children have lower life expectancy, perform worse in school, and are at increased risk for communicable diseases. The prevalence of undernutrition is highest in low-income …