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A rapid assessment randomised - controlled trial of improved cookstoves in rural Ghana
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012We conducted a rapid assessment randomised-controlled trial to quantify changes in fuel use, exposure to smoke and self-reported health attributable to deployment of an improved wood cookstove in the Upper West region of Ghana. Women trainers from neighbouring villages taught participants to build an improved cookstove and demonstrated optimal cooking techniques on such stoves.DocumentAccess to health: how to reduce child and maternal mortality?
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2010Systematic reviews show that access to community-based health services reduces neonatal mortality and still births, but the effect on maternal mortality is harder to detect.DocumentThe impact of daycare programs on child health, nutrition and development in developing countries: a systematic review
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2011Urbanisation and increases in female labour market participation have increased the demand for non-parental childcare in many low and middle-income countries. Especially in formal sector jobs, work and caring for one’s child cannot be combined.DocumentComplementary feeding: a critical window of opportunity from six months onwards
South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2013According to the State of the World’s Children 2010 report, only 58% of breastfed children aged six to nine months in developing countries were given complementary foods in a given 24-hour period. When stunting figures are reviewed to inform this picture, it becomes evident that a large proportion of young children are not receiving frequent adequate diet.Document“Use salt and foods high in salt sparingly”: a food-based dietary guideline for South Africa
South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2013It is now well established that an increase in salt intake leads to an increase in blood pressure, and that decreased salt intake relative to the usual or increased intake leads to lowered blood pressure in adults, with or without hypertension. Blood pressure is a strong proxy indicator for the risk of cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.Document“Be active!” Revisiting the South African food-based dietary guideline for activity
South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2013South Africans have diverse origins, but everybody faces the challenges of addressing the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and associated risk factors. As in other developing countries, there is potential to prevent and control NCDs, in spite of limited resources.DocumentField-testing of guidance on the appropriate labelling of processed complementary foods for infants and young children in South Africa
2012There is a lack of formal guidance from international normative bodies on the appropriate marketing of processed complementary foods. Such guidance is necessary to protect and promote optimal infant and young child feeding practices.DocumentOverweight impairs efficacy of iron supplementation in iron-deficient South African children: a randomized controlled intervention
International Journal of Obesity, 2013Countries in the ‘nutrition transition’ are undergoing rapid dietary and lifestyle changes that produce a double burden of malnutrition: their populations suffer from increasing over-consumption (for example, obesity, diabetes) but continue to have high rates of micronutrient deficiencies (for example, iron deficiency anemia (IDA)).OrganisationJournal of Community Nutrition & Health (JCNH)
The Journal of Community Nutrition & Health (JCNH) is a peer-reviewed, biannual journal and is the official publication of the Rural Research Institute of Physiology & Applied Nutrition (RRIPAOrganisationGlobal Heart
The official journal of the World Heart Federation; affilated with the Asian Pacific Society of CardiologyPages