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  Impact of education and provision of complementary feeding on growth and morbidity in children less than 2 years of age in developing countries: a systematic review

  BMC Public Health, 2013

  About one third of deaths in children less than 5 years of age are due to underlying undernutrition.
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  Food for thought: Are school feeding programmes effective in improving educational outcomes?

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009

  3ie Brief No. 7, March 2009 Existing evidence: School feeding leads to better educational outcomes, though results are more positive for school enrolment and attendance than for cognitive performance.
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  Vitamin A supplements for preventing mortality, illness, and blindness in children aged under 5: systematic review and meta-analysis

  British Medical Journal, 2011

  Vitamin A refers to a subclass of retinoic acids long understood to help regulate immune function and to reduce morbidity of infectious diseases. Vitamin A is required for normal functioning of the visual system, maintenance of cell function for growth, epithelial integrity, production of red blood cells, immunity, and reproduction.
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  Scaling up breastfeeding in developing countries

  The Lancet, 2011

  Early and exclusive breastfeeding is widely regarded as an important intervention that reduces neonatal, infant, and child mortality, and remains a basis for child survival strategies. Breastfeeding is also associated with improved maternal recovery post-partum and reduced incidence of diabetes and cancers.
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  The ignominy of low birth weight in South Asia

  Indian Pediatrics, 2012

  Although estimates vary, it is recognised that more than 20 million infants worldwide, representing 16% of all births in developing countries, are born with low birth weight (LBW). The vast majority, over 95%, of these births are in developing countries.
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  Effect of multiple micronutrient supplementation on pregnancy and infant outcomes: a systematic review

  Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2012

  Supplementation with multiple micronutrients (MM) during pregnancy may result in improved pregnancy and infant outcomes. The study conducted meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials that evaluated the effects of prenatal supplementation with MM (defined as containing at least five micronutrients and typically included iron or iron and folic acid).
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  Best practices in integrated child development services: some lesson for its restructuring and strengthening

  Public Health Foundation of India, 2011

  The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), India’s primary response to address malnutrition, is one of the world’s largest outreach child development programmes. Within the ICDS, some innovations have demonstrated significant improvements in the nutritional status of children.
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  International success stories in reducing undernutrition: strategic choices, policy actions and lessons

  Public Health Foundation of India, 2011

  The overall burden of stunting in developing countries is estimated to have reduced from 40 per cent to 29 per cent. Reductions in undernutrition have not always demonstrated a direct relationship with economic development and progress of various countries indicates that there is no one solution to improving nutrition.
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  Pro-nutrition agriculture in India: entry points and policy options

  Public Health Foundation of India, 2011

  Nutrition security has acquired a sense of urgency in the wake of dramatic surge in food prices since 2005, the ensuing economic crisis and the stubbornly high food inflation rates. These concerns dovetail with the recent renewed emphasis on pro-poor agricultural policies aimed at improving food production and marketing systems and policy measures to augment access to food for the poor.
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  Role of health systems in improving childhood nutrition in India

  Public Health Foundation of India, 2011

  The status of child undernutrition in India continues as an area of concern. Persistent high levels of undernutrition among women and children and its sluggish decline reflects the dichotomy in India’s growth story.

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