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  Potential impacts of iron biofortification in India

  Social Science and Medicine, 2008

  Iron deficiency is a widespread nutrition and health problem in developing countries, causing impairments in physical activity and cognitive development, as well as maternal mortality. Although food fortification and supplementation programmes have been effective in some countries, their overall success remains limited.
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  Mainstreaming interventions in the health sector to address maternal and child undernutrition

  2008

  Malnutrition is a contradiction of sorts – a multisectoral problem that needs to be addressed sector by sector. The health, education, water and sanitation, agriculture, trade and several other sectors have a role
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  Prenatal exposure to wood fuel smoke and low birth weight

  Environmental Health Perspectives, 2008

  Maternal exposure to wood fuel smoke may lead to impaired fetal growth due to hypoxia and or oxidative stress from smoke constituents such as carbon monoxide and particulate matter. This study is on the risk of low birth weight (LBW) and reduced mean birth weight in relation to reported use of wood for cooking during the prenatal period, compared with natural gas (NG).
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  Rise in childhood obesity with persistently high rates of undernutrition among urban school-aged Indo-Asian children

  British Medical Journal, 2008

  Childhood obesity is an emerging global public health challenge. Evidence for the transition in nutrition in Indo-Asian developing countries is lacking. The analyses described in this article were conducted to determine the trends in nutritional status of school-aged children in urban Pakistan.
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  Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from 6 months to 5 years of age

  Cochrane Library, 2010

  Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem in low and middle income countries affecting 190 million children under 5 years of age. VAD pre-disposes children to increased risk of a range of problems, including respiratory diseases, diarrhoea, measles and vision problems, and can lead to death.
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  The link between poverty and malnutrition: A South African perspective

  Health SA Gesondheid, 2010

  In this article, a brief review of the nutritional problems in South Africa, as well as the intergenerational, vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition, are used to argue for the necessity of including a nutrition
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  Factors affecting mothers’ choice of breastfeeding vs. formula feeding in the lower Umfolozi district war memorial hospital, KwaZulu-Natal

  Health SA Gesondheid, 2010

  The aim of this study was to determine which factors influence choice of breast- versus the formula-feeding of infants. This may help to understand where the focus should lie in the promotion of breastfeeding.
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  Fostering synergy between health and ICDS for advancing child survival and development

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2009

  Valsad district, in the state of Gujarat, undertook a process to synchronise the administration, jurisdiction and function of Health department and the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS). Synchronisation refers to the act of working together, so that the co-operation of different entities leads to a more fruitful outcome than would be possible individually.
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  The effect of folic acid, protein energy and multiple micronutrient supplements in pregnancy on stillbirths

  BMC Public Health, 2011

  Pregnancy is a state of increased requirement of macro- and micronutrients, and malnourishment or inadequate dietary intake before and during pregnancy, can lead to adverse perinatal outcomes including stillbirths. Many nutritional interventions have been proposed during pregnancy according to the nutritional status of the mother and baseline risk factors for different gestational disorders.
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  Sustainability of Impact: a biofortification program to reduce vitamin A deficiency in Uganda

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  In Uganda, HarvestPlus – a joint project from the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture and the International Food Policy Research Institute - introduced a beta-carotene-biofortified crop, the orange-fleshed sweet potato, as a strategy to reduce vitamin A deficiency in 2007.

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