Search Results - "World Health Organization"

Consumption, production, market access and affordability of nutritious foods in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia by Hirvonen, Kalle, Wolle, Abdulazize

“…For example, the World Health Organization recommends that children 6-23 months consume at least from four food groups (out of seven) every day. …”
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Trade liberalization, food, nutrition and health by Hawkes, Corinna, Grace, Delia, Thow, Anne Marie

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The Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative contributes to strategies of global development organizations by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…In 2019, this partnership advanced an ambitious research agenda and informed strategies of the World Health Organization and of United Kingdom’s Department for International Development.…”
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Improving food safety in Uganda: Piloting the nudge theory to change risky practices amongst Uganda's pork handlers by International Livestock Research Institute

“…The nudges were used to gently push pork handlers towards adopting the World Health Organization five keys to safer food.…”
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Accra: women and children getting by in urban Accra

“…The study was conducted by IFPRI in collaboration with the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research and the World Health Organization. Data collection completed in 1998 included participatory community studies, household case studies, a household survey carried out in 16 areas of Greater Accra and follow up interviews, focus groups and observations in a sub-sample of households. …”
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Biofortification Prioritization Index (BPI) by HarvestPlus

“…The BPI focuses on the three key micronutrients (vitamin A, iron, and zinc) that the World Health Organization deems among the most limiting in diets. …”
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Using Epi Map graphic data presentation software for regional targeting by Slack, Alison T., Morris, Saul Sutkover

“…Epi Map, a powerful new mapping software program, is now available to the public from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The program can be used to identify spatial variation in household food security and nutrition-relevant variables, such as population densities, crop yields, and malnutrition rates. …”
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Milk scarcity hits the capital by Araya, E.

“…The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that per capita consumption of milk should be 90 litres per year. …”
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Attribution of country level foodborne disease to food group and food types in three African countries: Conclusions from a structured expert judgment study by Sapp, A.C., Amaya, M.P., Havelaar, A.H., Nane, G.F.

“…Background According to the World Health Organization, 600 million cases of foodborne disease occurred in 2010. …”
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The Boma: Covid-19: Finding the origins of a pandemic by International Livestock Research Institute

“…A report published at the end of March by the World Health Organization and a joint team of scientists begins to unravel the mystery of the origins of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. …”
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Needs, Challenges and Objectives for Biotechnology and Agriculture in Africa by Nyiira, Z. M.

“…According to World Health Organization's observations, the world population has grown more than five-fold in just under 200 years to reach five billion. …”
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2014 Global Nutrition Report Dataset by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The data are compiled from secondary sources including United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank among many others. …”
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2015 Global Nutrition Report Dataset by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The data are compiled from secondary sources including United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank (WB) among many others. …”
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Ghana: the Accra urban food and nutrition study by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In the Accra Urban Food and Nutrition Study, IFPRI collaborated with the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research and the World Health Organization to examine the nature of urban poverty and how it relates to food insecurity and malnutrition in Accra. …”
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture, Food Safety, and Foodborne diseases by Todd, Ewen C. D., Narrod, Clare

“…Official reports indicate relatively small numbers of reported cases. The World Health Organization estimates that annually 1.8 million people worldwide (excluding China), most of whom are children, died from diarrheal diseases caused by microbial agents largely attributed to contaminated food and water.…”
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Towards an agenda for improving wastewater use in agriculture by Scheierling, S.M., Bartone, C.R., Mara, D.D., Drechsel, Pay

“…This paper sets out the trends and challenges of wastewater use in agriculture; identifies the risks and benefits of wastewater irrigation; describes the risk-assessment and management framework adopted by the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other international and national organizations; and proposes measures for applying the framework to reduce health risks by moving from unplanned to a planned, integrated, approach to wastewater use for irrigation.…”
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Are data available to measure progress in the coverage of essential nutrition actions in South Asia? A review of demographic and health surveys in seven countries, 2005–2018 by Jangid, Manita, Neupane, Sumanta, Scott, Samuel P., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Kim, Sunny S., Menon, Purnima, Torlesse, Harriet, Murira, Zivai, Heidkamp, Rebecca A.

“…South Asian countries carry the largest burden of undernutrition globally. The World Health Organization has recommended a set of Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) to tackle all forms of malnutrition. …”
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Status of nutrition-relevant interventions during pregnancy in India: Insights from the National Family Health Survey-4 by Avula, Rasmi, Sarswat, Esha, Chakrabarti, Suman, Mani, Sneha, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Menon, Purnima

“…The World Health Organization antenatal care guidelines 2016 have emphasized maternal nutrition assessment and provision of a set of nutrition-relevant interventions. …”
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The social determinants of tuberculosis: From evidence to action by Hargreaves, James R., Boccia, Delia, Evans, Carlton A., Adato, Michelle, Petticrew, Mark, Porter, John D. H.

“…We developed a framework based on the recent World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health and on current understanding of the social determinants of tuberculosis. …”
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Prioritizing countries for biofortification interventions using country-level data by Asare-Marfo, Dorene, Birol, Ekin, González, Carolina, Moursi, Mourad, Perez, Salomon, Schwarz, Jana, Zeller, Manfred

“…BPIs combine subindices for production, consumption, and micronutrient deficiency, using country-level crop production and consumption data primarily from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and iron, zinc, and vitamin A deficiency data from the World Health Organization (WHO).…”
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