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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"child nutrition"”.
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Child nutrition directors' perceptions of technology use in child nutrition programs
The purpose of this study was to investigate child nutrition directors (CNDs) perceptions of technology use in child nutrition programs (CNPs) in the Southwest Region of the United States. A questionnaire was developed by the researchers, validated by an expert panel using the Delphi technique, …
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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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Women's work and child nutrition in Haiti
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science, 1981.
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Effects of Credit, Income Diversification and Other Factors on Child Nutrition in Malawi
… the effects of credit and other factors on the nutritional status of boys and girls 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 …
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Impacts of Crop Diversification and Household Resilience on Welfare and Child Nutrition in Senegal
… with consequences for food security and child nutrition. In Senegal’s Groundnut Basin, where households rely on rain-fed farming and have limited formal risk-management options, crop diversification and household resilience are central strategies for protecting welfare. Although both are …
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An Evaluation of the Mississippi Recipes for Success Resource From the Perspective of Child Nutrition Directors
… Recipes for Success (MRS), A Guide for Child Nutrition Programs provides printed and online resources for child nutrition directors. These resources include recipes and methods to assist directors in effectively implementing United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrition …
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The effect of credit programme membership on food expenditure and child nutrition in rural Malawi : does female headship have a differential effect?
Although several country-level studies have investigated the impact of access to credit on various outcome variables, few of these studies have looked at the full effect of membership in a credit programme. This study was conducted on a Malawian dataset that was collected through a household rural …
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Investigating waste management programs in school foodservice operations
… concerning waste management activities in school nutrition programs. Research methods included a pilot study and a national survey of a random sample of 599 child nutrition directors who were members of the School Nutrition Association. Survey invitations were mailed and/or emailed and 79 usable …
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The complex determinants of childhood nutritional status and undernutrition in South Africa
I adopt two approaches in estimating a childhood nutrition model. In the first, child nutrition enters as a continuous dependent variable, allowing me to estimate the average marginal effects on childhood nutrition (proxied by three anthropometric measures). The second approach allows me to …
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Asset Holdings and Undernutrition of Young Children: Evidence from China Health and Nutrition Survey
<p>Undernutrition is an underlying determinant of 45% of all childhood deaths annually, resulting in 3.1 million deaths to children less than five years globally (Black et al., 2013). The adverse effects of undernutrition, especially chronic undernutrition, could cause impaired physical growth, …
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Essays in empirical development economics
… studies the impact of household resources on child nutrition in South Africa. In the early 1990s, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were dramatically expanded for the black population. About a third of black South African children under age 5 live with an …
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Variability in dietary quality of elementary school lunch menus with changes in National School Lunch Program nutrition standards
… to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) nutrition standards over the past 10 years. The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA, 2010) presumably improved dietary quality (DQ) of reimbursable school meals from previous standards, while Child Nutrition Program Flexibilities (CNP Flexibilities, …
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Social networks, bargaining power within couples, and maternal health care in Tanzania
… on the use of maternal health services and child health in Tanzania. The main focus is on how these issues relate to social networks and bargaining power within couples. These issues are interrelated and are discussed in three essays. The first essay investigates the impact of information …
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Three essays on the adoption and impacts of improved maize varieties in Ethiopia
… affects the poor and vulnerable groups such as children, and how farmers' perceptions affect their adoption decisions. This dissertation helps fill this gap with three essays on adoption and impacts of improved maize varieties in rural Ethiopia. The first essay estimates poverty impacts. …
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Three Essays on Investments in Children's Human Capital
… disasters and social assistance programs affect children's schooling, child labor, and children’s health in developing countries. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Bearing the Burden of Natural Disasters: Child Labor and Schooling in the Aftermath of Tropical Storm …
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Improving Nutrition in Nepal: An analysis of food environments, behavioral determinants of consumption, and costs of a multisectoral nutrition program
Despite significant gains to achieve national nutrition targets in Nepal, infant and young child feeding practices remain sub-optimal. Increased consumption of processed foods high in sugar, salt, and fat in conjunction with low dietary diversity and micronutrient deficiency lead to poor overall …
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The development and evaluation of a mHealth nutrition education intervention
… marketplace evaluated publicly available mHealth nutrition apps targeted to children and found that there were few high-quality evidence-based apps available to educate children on healthy eating. To fill this gap in the availability of mHealth child nutrition apps, an iterative multi-method …
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The effectiveness of the Foodbot Factory serious game on increasing nutrition knowledge in children
… there is limited data on their impact on child nutrition knowledge. The objective of this study was to determine if Foodbot Factory effectively improves children’s knowledge of 2019 Canada’s Food Guide. Methods: Study was a single-blinded, parallel randomized controlled trial conducted …
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A comparison of Texas not-for-profit private and public middle schools' efforts to promote healthy eating behaviors
… to obtain data from public school directors of child nutrition and private school principals. Of the 208 surveys that were returned, 198 were summarized and analyzed. Schools were divided into three groups: public schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), …
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