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Welfare and vulnerability: Findings from the first round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Violent events in the township, self-reported physical insecurity, climatic and health shocks all are strongly associated with negative outcomes for income, coping and food security. …”
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Tracking India’s progress on addressing malnutrition: What will it take? by Menon, Purnima, Avula, Rasmi, Sarswat, Esha, Mani, Sneha, Jangid, Manita, Singh, Anamika, Kaur, Supreet, Dubey, Alok Kumar, Gupta, Shuchita, Nair, Divya, Agarwal, Pulkit, Agrawal, Nitya

“…India has a robust policy framework for nutrition that covers most evidence-based interventions (Vir et al. 2013), and it has in place large-scale national program platforms – the Integrated Child Development Services and the National Rural Health Mission – with the mandate to deliver diverse nutrition interventions (Avula et al. 2013). …”
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Tackling nutrition in Odisha: Looking back, looking forward by Avula, Rasmi, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Mishra, Nihar, Mitra, Devjit, Kohli, Neha, Menon, Purnima

“…Particularly between 2006 and 2016, nutrition and health outcomes improved significantly in the state. …”
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Impact evaluation of the strengthen PSNP4 institutions and resilience (SPIR) development food security activity (DFSA): Baseline report by Alderman, Harold, Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hidrobo, Melissa, Ledlie, Natasha, Ramani, Gayathri V., Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…GOE also added a new objective to the PSNP to improve the nutritional status of women and children by better linking PSNP clients to health and nutrition services and through nutrition conditionalities (World Bank 2014). …”
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Experiences and lessons learned for delivery of micronutrient powders interventions by Reerink, Ietje, Namaste, Sorrel M. L., Poonawala, Alia, Nyhus Dhillon, Christina, Aburto, Nancy, Chaudhery, Deepika, Hou, Kroeun, Griffiths, Marcia, Haque, Mohammad Raisul, Bonvecchio, Anabelle, Jefferds, Maria Elena, Rawat, Rahul

“…We found that most countries distributed MNP free of charge via the health sector, although distribution through other platforms and using subsidized fee for product or mixed payment models have also been used. …”
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Women’s empowerment, household dietary diversity, and child anthropometry among vulnerable populations in Odisha, India by Ogutu, Sylvester, Mockshell, Jonathan, Garrett, James, Ritter, Thea, Labarta, Ricardo, Alvarez, Diego, Nedumaran, Swamikannu, Gonzalez, Carolina, Gotor, Elisabetta

“…Results show that women’s empowerment is positively associated with HDDS (coef. 0.41 food groups; p < 0.1) and reduces the prevalence of underweight (coef. 39%; p < 0.05) and wasting (coef. 56%; p < 0.1) in children but has no effect on the prevalence of child stunting. …”
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Investigating carotenoid loss after drying and storage of orange-fleshed sweet potato by Bechoff, A.

“…Biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) is being promoted to tackle vitamin A deficiency, a serious public health problem affecting children and pregnant/lactating women in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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The physicochemical and nutritional properties of biscuits from low temperature dried breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg) flour by Levai, L.D., Tang, E.N., Monono, Y.E., NDikum, S.B., Eyenga, E.F., Sumbele, S.A., Ngane, B.K., Schneider, J., Birmingham, T., NDindeng, S.A., NGome, F.A.

“…Our findings revealed that breadfruit flour and biscuits are rich in essential minerals of public health concern, with iron being particularly high in the biscuits. …”
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Preferences Over Decision-Making by Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) Initiative

“…Improving women’s decision-making power is crucial for advancing gender equality and is most commonly measured by asking respondents who usually makes decisions over a standard set of domains (e.g., major household purchases, children’s education, health, how earned money is used, etc.). …”
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Assessing nutritional diversity of cropping systems in African villages by Remans, R., Flynn, D.F.B., Clerck, F. de, Diru, W., Fanzo, J.C.

“…In Sub-Saharan Africa, 40% of children under five years in age are chronically undernourished. …”
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Forests, Trees, and Micronutrient-Rich Food Consumption in Indonesia by Ickowitz, A., Rowland, D., Powell, B., Salim, M.A., Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…We use food consumption data from the 2003 Indonesia Demographic Health Survey for children between the ages of one and five years and data on vegetation cover from the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry to examine whether there is a relationship between different tree-dominated land classes and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods across the archipelago. …”
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Effekten av två olika omvårdnadsstilar på hundars beteende vid återförening efter separation by Yngve, Elin

Rehabilitering av människor med hjälp av djur by Filipsson, Emma, Flamander, Carmen, Pärn-Yngwe, Linnéa

Compatible spaces for emotional support of child and adolescent patients by Ekström, Galina

“…In some contemporary hospitals, holistic approaches to patients’ health are used in such a way that they may be beneficial for the whole healing process. …”
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Betydelsen av hundunderstödd undervisning vid problematisk skolfrånvaro samt tjänstehundarnas välfärd by Magnusson, Moa

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Social Return on Investment, SROI, the value added for families before and after using Solvatten in the Bungoma district in Western Kenya by Jönsson, Jenny, Wikman, Anna, Wätthammar, Tina

“…Waterborne diseases like typhoid, cholera, amoebic dysentery and diarrhea create health problems and deaths among people. There is a need for low cost interventions like household-based water treatment and safe storage (HWTS). …”
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Biocontrol activity of Meyerozyma guilliermondii against mould growth and a study of local post-harvest systems for maize in Cameroon by Ny, Sofia

“…Moreover, the change in maize storage technology could prove essential to improving women and children’s health in Cameroon, since many farmers smoke their maize indoors using fire-wood. …”

Socio-economic baseline survey data of 20 villages in Kitui district, Kenya in 2009 by Morimoto, Yasuyuki, Maundu, Patrick, Imbumi, Maryam, Kariuki, Lucy, Tumbo, Dominic

“…This is a baseline survey data that was collected within the project ‘Managing agricultural biodiversity for better nutrition and health, improved livelihoods and more sustainable production systems in sub-Saharan Africa’ implemented by Bioversity International. …”
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Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella in livestock and humans in Korogocho and Viwandani slums by Gichuyia, M.C.

“…In Kenya, salmonellosis is only second to pneumococcal disease as a leading cause of mortality in children under five; children living in the slums are especially vulnerable. …”
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Quantitative microbial risk assessment of haemolytic uremic syndrome associated with Argentinean kosher beef consumption in Israel by Brusa, Victoria, Dolev, Sergio, Signorini Porchiett, Marcelo Lisandro, Leotta, Gerardo Anibal

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