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Socio-economic differentials in child stunting are consistently larger in urban than rural areas: analysis of 10 DHS data sets by Menon, Purnima, Ruel, Marie T., Morris, Saul Sutkover

“…Urban–rural comparisons of childhood undernutrition suggest that urban populations are better off than rural populations. …”
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The nutritional transition and diet-related chronic diseases in Asia: implications for prevention by Popkin, Barry M., Horton, Susan, Kim, Soowon

“…Diet-related chronic disease is projected to increase and dietary factors (principally overweight) will account for an increased share of chronic disease, and childhood factors will decline in significance. Few program and policy options to address these issues have been undertaken in Asia. …”
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The nutritional transition and diet-related chronic diseases in Asia: implications for prevention by Popkin, Barry M., Horton, Susan, Kim, Soowon

“…Diet-related chronic disease is projected to increase and dietary factors (principally overweight) will account for an increased share of chronic disease, and childhood factors will decline in significance. Few program and policy options to address these issues have been undertaken in Asia. …”
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Assessing progress on the coverage of interventions in the first 1000 days in India: Role of national programs by Avula, Rasmi, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Christopher, Anita, Gune, Soyra, Bhatia, Neena, Chauhan, Alka, Dwivedi, L. K., Kapur, Avani, Pedgaonkar, Sarang, Shukla, Ritwik, Chakrabarti, Suman, Singh, Shri Kant, Menon, Purnima

“…Findings Between 2016 and 2021, coverage improved significantly for nearly all interventions (~1–22 percentage points (pp) during pregnancy, ~7–20 pp during delivery/postpartum and~5–17 pp during early childhood). Improvements in coverage were higher among the poor and in rural areas compared with the rich and in urban areas, respectively; wealth and residence gaps narrowed for most interventions. …”
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Nutritional status of children 0-59 months in selected intervention communities in northern Ghana from the Africa RISING project in 2012 by Glover-Amengor, M., Agbemafle, I., Hagan, L.L., Mboom, F.P., Gamor, G., Larbi, Asamoah, Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard

“…Background Poor nutritional status during childhood and its long-term impact on economic growth and wellbeing is well known. …”
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Min barndoms trädgård : perenner och lignoser i växtzon VI by Allberg, Maja

“…The case study is about the garden of my childhood in Brunflo, Jämtland, which is located in the cultivation zone VI, in the middle of Sweden. …”

The gut microbiota and its relationship with obese children by Aryee, Isabella

“…Background: It’s decelerated that childhood obesity is a global epidemic since 21st century. …”
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Gene action, heterotic patterns, and inter-trait relationships of early maturing pro-vitamin a maize inbred lines and performance of Testcrosses under contrasting environments by Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Obisesan, O., Olumide, O.B., Toyinbo, J.O.

“…Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of night blindness, total blindness, maternal and childhood mortality in developing countries. Drought, low soil nitrogen and Striga hermonthica parasitism are major constraints to maize production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). …”
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The burdens of participation: A mixed-methods study of the effects of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program on women’s time use in Malawi by Margolies, Amy, Colantuoni, Elizabeth, Morgan, Rosemary, Gelli, Aulo, Caulfield, Laura E.

“…These findings add to limited evidence of the impacts of nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs and early childhood interventions on women’s time use. Measuring women’s participation through mixed-method evaluations can aid interpretation to avoid harm and to better understand the tradeoffs of women’s time.…”
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The global burden of high fasting plasma glucose associated with zinc deficiency: Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis by Wirth, James P., Zeng, Wu, Petry, Nicolai, Rohner, Fabian, Glenn, Scott, Donkor, William, Wegmuller, Rita, Boy, Erick, Lividini, Keith

“…While ZD accounts for a small share of the high FPG disease burden, the total number of DALYs far surpasses other estimates of the disease burden attributable to ZD, which focus on diarrheal diseases in childhood. Zinc interventions are urgently needed to help address the increasing disease burden from NCDs, and the double burden of malnutrition.…”
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A multi-sectoral community development intervention has a positive impact on diet quality and growth in school-age children in rural Nepal by Miller, Laurie C., Neupane, Sumanta, Joshi, Neena, Lohani, Mahendra

“…Poor diet quality (diet diversity and animal-source food [ASF] consumption) during childhood negatively affects growth, development, behaviour and physiologic function in later life. …”
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How are school food environments characterised in the literature? by Burkhart, Sarah, Smith, Monica A., Raneri, Jessica E., Hunter, Danny, Singh, Pragya, Leahy, Deana, O’Halloran, Siobhan, Christensen, Belinda, Maelaua, Josephine, Casey, Elodie

“…Study Design, Settings, Participants: A scoping review process, utilising a protocol developed a-priori and following the JBI methodology for scoping reviews, searched for all evidence that aims to define, describe, conceptualize and measure the SFE in early childhood, primary and secondary school communities within a global context (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies published in peer-review journals, and grey literature sources like government, organisation or research reports, theses and dissertations). …”
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Physical growth and nutritional status of Tsimane's Amerindian children of lowland Bolivia by Foster, Z., Byron, Elizabeth, Reyes-Garcia, Victoria, Huanca, Thomas, Vadez, Vincent, Apaza, Lilian, Perez Eddy, Tanner, S., Gutierrez, Y., Sandstrom, B., Yakhedts, A., Osborn, C., Godoy, Ricardo, Leonard, William. R.

“…Further research is needed to identify the specific causes and potential interventions for the high rates of childhood growth stunting in this region. Am J Phys Anthropol 126:343–351, 2005. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.…”
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Understanding the factors associated with child malnutrition in rural Burundi: experiences from the Muyinga and Ngozi provinces by Emera, Willy Désiré, D’Haese, Marijke, Slosse, Wannes, Lachat, Carl

“…Background: Childhood stunting, wasting, and underweight are markers of poor nutrition and socioeconomic deprivation in low-income countries. …”
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Nutritional status of children 2-5 years old, its relation with cow milk consumption and other associated factors in Kilteawlaelo District eastern zone Tigray, Ethiopia by Teklehaymanot, A.

“…Dairy products play a key role in healthy human nutrition and developmentthroughout life especially, in childhood because of the concentrated source of macro andmicronutrients. …”
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Ownership of small livestock species, but not aggregate livestock, is associated with an increased risk of anemia among children in Ethiopia: A propensity score matching analysis by Zerfu, Taddese Alemu, Abera, A., Duncan, Alan J., Baltenweck, Isabelle, McNeill, Geraldine

“…However, research on the relationship between livestock ownership and childhood anemia has produced conflicting results. …”
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The effect of electronic job aid assisted one-to-one counselling to support exclusive breastfeeding among 0–5-month-old infants in rural Bangladesh by Billah, Sk Masum, Ferdous, Tarana E., Siddique, Abu Bakkar, Raynes-Greenow, Camille, Kelly, Patrick, Gillespie, Stuart, Hoddinott, John F., Menon, Purnima

“…The comparison arm continued with the usual practice where mothers could receive nutrition counselling at routine antenatal and postnatal care, and during careseeking for childhood illnesses. We assessed breastfeeding indicators at birth and monthly until the child was 6 months old, in both intervention and comparison arms. …”
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Agriculture and undernutrition by Headey, Derek D., Masters, William A.

“…The two types of malnu-trition are connected, as many people who suffer from dietary insufficiencies in some dimensions also have excesses in others (for example, stunting in childhood followed by obesity in later life, or ongoing micronutrient deficien-cies during weight gain), but excessive intake of harmful foods is less likely than dietary insufficiency to be caused by agricultural production and sup-ply constraints. …”
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Are data available for tracking progress on nutrition policies, programs, and outcomes in Maldives? by Neupane, Sumanta, Jangid, Manita, Scott, Samuel P., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Kim, Sunny S., Murira, Zivai, Torlesse, Harriet, Menon, Purnima

“…Neither of the population-based surveys contained data on a range of actions, including advice on consuming iron and folic acid (IFA) during pregnancy, support for early initiation of breastfeeding and immediate skin-to-skin contact, optimal feeding of low-birth-weight infants, counseling of mothers of low-birth-weight infants on kangaroo mother care (KMC) during delivery and postpartum period, counseling on infant and young child feeding (IYCF), growth monitoring, and counseling after growth monitoring during early childhood. The population-based surveys contained data on most of the indicators for immediate and underlying determinants; indicators that were not available included maternal dietary diversity during pregnancy, household food insecurity, and coverage under social protection schemes. …”
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Improving child nutrition and development through community-based childcare centres in Malawi – The NEEP-IE study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Gelli, Aulo, Margolies, Amy, Santacroce, Marco, Sproule, Kathryn, Theis, Sophie, Roschnik, Natalie, Twalibu, Aisha, Chidalengwa, George, Cooper, Amrik, Moorhead, Tyler, Gladstone, Melissa, Kariger, Patricia, Kutundu, Mangani

“…Methods Sixty community-based childcare centres (CBCCs) in rural communities around Zomba district, Malawi, were randomised to either (1) a control group where children were attending CBCCs supported by Save the Children’s Early Childhood Health and Development (ECD) programme, or (2) an intervention group where nutritional and agricultural support activities were provided alongside the routine provision of the Save the Children’s ECD programme. …”
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