Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Nutrition-sensitive interventions to improve overall diet quality are increasingly needed to improve maternal and child health. This study demonstrates feasibility of a structured process to leverage local expertise in formulating programmes tailored for current circumstances in South Asia and Afric...

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Main Authors: Masters, William A., Rosettie, Katherine L., Kranz, Sarah, Pedersen, Sarah H., Webb, Patrick, Danaei, Goodarz, Mozaffarian, Dariush, Covic, Namukolo, Mavrotas, George
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Wiley 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145597
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author Masters, William A.
Rosettie, Katherine L.
Kranz, Sarah
Pedersen, Sarah H.
Webb, Patrick
Danaei, Goodarz
Mozaffarian, Dariush
Covic, Namukolo
Mavrotas, George
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Danaei, Goodarz
Kranz, Sarah
Masters, William A.
Mavrotas, George
Mozaffarian, Dariush
Pedersen, Sarah H.
Rosettie, Katherine L.
Webb, Patrick
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Rosettie, Katherine L.
Kranz, Sarah
Pedersen, Sarah H.
Webb, Patrick
Danaei, Goodarz
Mozaffarian, Dariush
Covic, Namukolo
Mavrotas, George
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description Nutrition-sensitive interventions to improve overall diet quality are increasingly needed to improve maternal and child health. This study demonstrates feasibility of a structured process to leverage local expertise in formulating programmes tailored for current circumstances in South Asia and Africa. We assembled 41 stakeholders in 2 regional workshops and followed a prespecified protocol to elicit programme designs listing the human and other resources required, the intervention's mechanism for impact on diets, target foods and nutrients, target populations, and contact information for partners needed to implement the desired programme. Via this protocol, participants described 48 distinct interventions, which we then compared against international recommendations and global goals. Local stakeholders' priorities focused on postharvest food systems to improve access to nutrient-dense products (75% of the 48 programmes) and on production of animal sourced foods (58%), as well as education and social marketing (23%) and direct transfers to meet food needs (12.5%). Each programme included an average of 3.2 distinct elements aligned with those recommended by United Nations system agencies in the Framework for Action produced by the Second International Conference on Nutrition in 2014 and the Compendium of Actions for Nutrition developed for the Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger initiative in 2016. Our results demonstrate that a participatory process can help local experts identify their own priorities for future investments, as a first step in a novel process of rigorous, transparent, and independent priority setting to improve diets among those at greatest risk of undernutrition.
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spelling CGSpace1455972024-10-25T07:57:19Z Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Masters, William A. Rosettie, Katherine L. Kranz, Sarah Pedersen, Sarah H. Webb, Patrick Danaei, Goodarz Mozaffarian, Dariush Covic, Namukolo Mavrotas, George maternal and child health child nutrition health malnutrition nutrition diet maternal nutrition Nutrition-sensitive interventions to improve overall diet quality are increasingly needed to improve maternal and child health. This study demonstrates feasibility of a structured process to leverage local expertise in formulating programmes tailored for current circumstances in South Asia and Africa. We assembled 41 stakeholders in 2 regional workshops and followed a prespecified protocol to elicit programme designs listing the human and other resources required, the intervention's mechanism for impact on diets, target foods and nutrients, target populations, and contact information for partners needed to implement the desired programme. Via this protocol, participants described 48 distinct interventions, which we then compared against international recommendations and global goals. Local stakeholders' priorities focused on postharvest food systems to improve access to nutrient-dense products (75% of the 48 programmes) and on production of animal sourced foods (58%), as well as education and social marketing (23%) and direct transfers to meet food needs (12.5%). Each programme included an average of 3.2 distinct elements aligned with those recommended by United Nations system agencies in the Framework for Action produced by the Second International Conference on Nutrition in 2014 and the Compendium of Actions for Nutrition developed for the Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger initiative in 2016. Our results demonstrate that a participatory process can help local experts identify their own priorities for future investments, as a first step in a novel process of rigorous, transparent, and independent priority setting to improve diets among those at greatest risk of undernutrition. 2018-03-01 2024-06-21T09:04:43Z 2024-06-21T09:04:43Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145597 en Open Access Wiley Masters, William A.; Rosettie, Katherine; Kranz, Sarah; Pedersen, Sarah H.; Webb, Patrick; Danaei, Goodarz; Mozaffarian, Dariush; on behalf of the Global Nutrition and Policy Consortium. 2018. Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Maternal and Child Nutrition 14(2): e12526. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12526
spellingShingle maternal and child health
child nutrition
health
malnutrition
nutrition
diet
maternal nutrition
Masters, William A.
Rosettie, Katherine L.
Kranz, Sarah
Pedersen, Sarah H.
Webb, Patrick
Danaei, Goodarz
Mozaffarian, Dariush
Covic, Namukolo
Mavrotas, George
Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
title Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
title_full Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
title_fullStr Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
title_full_unstemmed Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
title_short Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
title_sort priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in sub saharan africa and south asia
topic maternal and child health
child nutrition
health
malnutrition
nutrition
diet
maternal nutrition
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