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    Pumping iron – making prenatal iron supplementation work

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    An estimated 58 per cent of pregnant women in developing countries are anaemic. Health ministries in most poor countries aim to provide iron supplements for pregnant women. So why is maternal anaemia still rife? Studies by the MotherCare Project and partners in eight countries suggest that supply and distribution problems are currently to blame.
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    Taking the register – surveying the health of schoolchildren in Chad

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The government of Chad recognises health and nutrition as major influences on children’s educational success. But before planning school health services, they need to know the extent of health problems among Chad’s schoolchildren. Assisted by researchers from the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, they conducted the first nationwide health survey of school-age children.
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    Not just where we live, but how we live: addressing urban food and nutrition security

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Urban policy-makers in developing countries face a growing problem. By 2020, the number of people in the developing world will grow from 5 billion to 7 billion, with 90 per cent of this growth occurring in cities and towns. The sheer volume of people will compromise the ability of the cities to meet basic needs, resulting in an increase of urban poverty, hunger and malnutrition.
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    Reform for all: health care reform in two Indian states

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In a country the size of India, what problems arise when the government introduces a programme of health reforms?  How can these reforms reach every part of the country?  Researchers analysed health reform programmes in the two neighbouring Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to find what lessons could be learned from their successes and failures.  They found that the poorest members of soci
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    Tall story – are height and socio-economic status linked in Trinidad and Tobago?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What do children’s heights tell us about inequalities in society? Researchers from King’s College London and the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Health measured the height and socio-economic status of nearly 5 700 schoolchildren. They found that height may not reveal everything about the impact of inequalities in middle-income countries.
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    Lean times - adolescent nutrition in Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Adolescents in developing countries join the work force, get married and become pregnant relatively early. A lot of attention is directed at sexual health issues, substance abuse and violence among this age group. But little is known about their nutritional status. A study in rural Bangladesh attempts to fill this gap.
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    Sick-notes: school enrolment and health in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Health programmes are often delivered to children through schools. But what about children who do not go to school? Does their health suffer? How can they be reached? A study by the UK University of Oxford examines whether health issues are related to school enrolment in rural Ghana.
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    Forever facing famine? Rethinking food insecurity in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why is hunger worsening in Africa while elsewhere food shortages are lessening? Is Africa’s persistent food insecurity primarily the result of bad government or failure at a household level? How could public and private actors work together to improve the production, marketing and consumption of food?
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    Wealth = health? Nutrition's double whammy in Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Asian malnutrition has a complex face. In some places it is characterised by undernutrition, in others by overnutrition. In an increasing number of states, and even within households, it is characterised by both. Why has wealth not brought health? What can be done to mitigate the profound consequences of poor nutrition for individuals, communities and nations?
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    Pushing Palestinians into poverty: occupation and the impoverishment of hope

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are Palestinians in the occupied territories sliding into poverty? Have prospects for economic viability, good governance, peace and reconciliation been shattered forever? What can the international community do to get Israel to comply with international law? 

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