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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Nutritional outcomes"”.
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Describing The Nutritional Outcomes Following Paediatric Liver Transplantation At A Tertiary Hospital In South Africa
… is an important marker of post- liver transplant outcomes in children and is monitored judiciously pre-transplantation. There is a paucity of data on post-transplant nutritional outcomes, particularly in the developing world setting. Aim: To describe the nutritional outcomes of children following …
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Undernutrition in Khayelitsha, Crossroads and Browns Farm: A review of nutritional outcomes of children treated at Philani's clinics from 2008 to 2018
… in South Africa. This study aims to assess the nutritional outcomes of children under five years of age referred for underweight or growth faltering who were treated at Philani clinics in Khayelitsha, Crossroads and Browns Farm. Children were assessed by a medical doctor, and received …
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Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme
… African National School Nutrition Programme on nutritional outcomes using a regression discontinuity design applied to the first wave of the National Income Dynamic Study. There is tentative evidence to suggest that the programme has a positive effect on weight-for- age and BMI-for-age z-scores, …
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Modelling malnutrition among under-five-year-old children in Ghana
… (2) investigated household level variations in nutritional outcomes of children; (3) explored, modelled and illustrated spatial variations in the risk of childhood malnutrition over Ghana; (4) explored, modelled, forecasted and illustrated spatio-temporal variations in the risk of childhood …
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Essays on productivity growth in agriculture
… expected rise steadily. If TFP growth stagnates, nutritional outcomes would likely worsen, with virtually no reduction in the global headcount of malnourished persons over the 2006-2050 period. Climate change will also have significant implications for nutritional outcomes in hunger stricken …
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Understanding lactation consultants' evaluation of oral mechanism function and dysphagia in nursing neonates
… are at increased risk for poor health and nutritional outcomes (Arvedson, 2008) if improperly diagnosed or managed. Communication between multidisciplinary team members is imperative for transition from screening to intervention. An overlap in scope of practice may exist between lactation …
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Merchant mothers and fishermen fathers : parental investment and subsistence work among the boat-dwelling Shodagor of rural Bangladesh
… of the Shodagor socioecology, influence nutritional outcomes for children and parents? I find that the concentration of resource sharing and childcare duties within the nuclear family is associated with husbands and wives cooperating in order to fulfill a family's subsistence and …
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Impacts of Crop Diversification and Household Resilience on Welfare and Child Nutrition in Senegal
… on three fronts: the magnitude of welfare and nutritional gains from crop diversification under climate shocks; how the benefits of household resilience vary across households and by gender; and whether child nutrition outcomes improve with the level of crop diversification. This thesis …
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A realist investigation of the impact of Healthy Start on the diets of low-income pregnant women in the UK
… evaluation of the impact of Healthy Start on nutritional outcomes since its introduction in 2006. Therefore, this study aimed to explore potential outcomes of the programme (including intended and unintended outcomes) and develop explanations for how and why these outcomes might occur. A …
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Essays on the Economics of Food and Agricultural Technology
… the impacts of fortified rice on children's nutritional outcomes, micronutrient biomarkers, and cognitive performance. The results show significant reductions in zinc deficiency and improvements in selected biomarkers, with effects varying by rice formulation and micronutrient composition. …
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Improving Nutrition in Nepal: An analysis of food environments, behavioral determinants of consumption, and costs of a multisectoral nutrition program
… deficiency lead to poor overall diets and nutritional outcomes. Understanding external and personal drivers of infant and young child feeding practices are a key step to design behavior change strategies that improve child nutrition outcomes. Economic evaluations of multi-sectoral nutrition …
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Data-Driven Modeling For Social-Ecological Resilience within a One Health Framework
… to agricultural systems as key contributors to nutritional resilience, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where undernutrition remains prevalent. Chapter 3 presents a systematic scoping review to characterize quantitative assessments of the impact of agricultural investments and programs …
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Socioeconomic differentials in child stunting in rural and urban areas in Zambia
… challenge faced in improving child health outcomes in LMICs includes persistent socioeconomic and residential disparities. Despite achieving an overall decline in the prevalence of child stunting over the past decades, children residing in rural areas and less-privileged households continue …
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Food security in India
… food subsidies can lead to large improvements in nutritional outcomes of poor households. In the third chapter, I study whether informal risk-sharing can provide full consumption insurance in village economies. I propose a new test for full risk sharing that accounts for heterogeneity in risk and …
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Nutrition, body composition and physical activity in malignant pleural disease: associations with patient outcomes and response to an exercise intervention
… malnutrition or their associations with patient outcomes. Purpose: The objectives were to: 1) characterise physical activity levels and their relationship with patient outcomes; 2) compare methodology used to classify presarcopenia; 3) determine the prevalence of pre-sarcopenia and malnutrition …
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Glucose metabolism in the critically ill.
… of diabetes, and is associated with adverse outcomes. While the gastrointestinal tract is pivotal in the regulation of glucose metabolism in health and diabetes, this relationship had not been explored in the critically ill. The focus of this thesis is glucose metabolism in the critically …
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Exploring the influence of organisational culture: An action research study to improve ward practices in the provision of food and nutritional care to hospitalised adult inpatients.
Context: Providing optimum nutritional care is fundamental to patient recovery and reduces complications associated with the adverse effects of malnutrition (undernutrition). Problems with malnutrition are well recognised in UK hospitals. On admission, about 34% of people aged 65 years or over …
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Intergenerational effects: child and maternal outcomes related to exposure to intimate partner violence and trauma in a South African community
… wide range of adverse maternal and child health outcomes. Despite evidence that exposure to IPV affects child development and growth at birth and in infancy, there are limitations to our existing knowledge. First, few studies have considered the impact of maternal emotional IPV separately on …
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Food-related behaviors and attitudes around racial and ethnic foods in US adults who live alone
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Essays on the economics of tobacco and alcohol control policy in Kenya
… account for the possibility of correlation in nutritional outcomes for children living in the same cluster/village. The two methods also allowed for the inclusion of contextual effects that could inform public health policy in Kenya. In 2005/6 the odds of long-term child malnutrition were …