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    Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh, Phase II

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh.
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    Impact evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh, Phase I: executive summary

    2014
    The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh.
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    Helpdesk Report: Nutrition interventions in developing and fragile contexts with a focus on community interventions and Yemen

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This helpdesk query report identifies evidence on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of different interventions to impact malnutrition, with a focus on: Prevention:
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    Helpdesk Report: Increasing facility - based deliveries and providing referral transport for women in childbirth in Asia

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This report looks at approaches to increasing the proportion of baby deliveries which take place in health facilities, and the provision of referral transportation for women and childrento access healthcare for childbirth and for emergency obstetric care. The focus is on Asia and particularly South East Asia. Approaches to increasing facility based births:
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    Planning and costing to accelerate actions for scaling up nutrition

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement was launched in 2010 to reinvigorate efforts to address undernutrition globally.
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    Helpdesk Report: Ebola - local beliefs and behaviour change

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This report focuses on the local beliefs and practices around illnesses and death, the transmission of disease and spirituality, which affect decision-making around health-seeking behaviour, caring for relatives and the nature of burials.  It also considers how this can inform effective behaviour change interventions for preventing Ebola in Sierra Leone.  Four key transmission pathway
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    Helpdesk Report: Mental health of women and girls in developing countries

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    Mental disorders contribute to 13 per cent of the global burden of disease worldwide. The majority-almost three quarters-of this burden occurs in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). Gender is a critical determinant of mental health and mental illness. Gender dictates the differential power and control men and women have over the socioeconomic determinants of their mental health and lives.
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    Ebola Regional lesson learning

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    The Ebola outbreak currently affecting West Africa is the most serious trans-national medical emergency in modern times. It has the potential to become a global health crisis. Many of the countries affected already have weak health systems, which are now stretched to breaking point.
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    Promoting equity through integrated early child development and nutrition interventions

    Wiley Online Library, 2014
    Sustainable development, a foundation of the post-2015 global agenda, depends on healthy and productive citizens. The origins of adult health begin early in life, stemming from genetic–environmental interactions that include adequate nutrition and opportunities for responsive learning.
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    Nutrition, information, and household behaviour experimental evidence from Malawi

    Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2014
    Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.

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