Sökning: "Child malnutrition"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden Child malnutrition.

  1. 1. Gender inequity in child survival : travails of the girl child in rural north India

    Författare :Anand Krishnan; Nawi Ng; Peter Byass; Chadrakant Pandav; Per Ashorn; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Conditional cash transfers; girl child; inequities; gender; prejudice; mortality; non-specific effects; sex; socio-economic; vaccines; Epidemiology; epidemiologi;

    Sammanfattning : Background: While substantial progress has been made globally towards achieving United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child mortality, the decline is not sufficient to reach the targets set for 2015. The South Asian region, which includes India, was to achieve the MDG 4 target of 39 deaths per 1000 live births by 2015 but was estimated to have reached only 61 by 2011. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Nutrition transition and the double burden of malnutrition in Indonesia : a mixed method approach exploring social and contextual determinants of malnutrition

    Författare :Masoud Vaezghasemi; Nawi Ng; Ann Öhman; Malin Eriksson; Anna Winkvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Double burden of malnutrition; Child obesity; Body Mass Index; Gender relations; Social capital; Multilevel modelling; Grounded theory; Indonesian Family Life Surveys; Indonesia; folkhälsa; Public health;

    Sammanfattning : IntroductionNutrition transition concerns the broad changes in the human diet that have occurred over time and space. In low- to middle-income countries such as Indonesia, nutrient transition describes shifts from traditional diets high in cereal and fibre towards Western pattern diets high in sugars, fat, and animal-source foods. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Integrated community-based management of severe acute child malnutrition : Studies from rural Southern Ethiopia

    Författare :Elazar Tadesse; Eva-Charlotte Ekström; Anders Hjern; Pia Olsson; Yemane Berehane; Tahmeed Ahmed; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Severe acute malnutrition; integrated outpatient therapeutic programme; programme outcome; recovery; Ethiopia;

    Sammanfattning : Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the community-based Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) as a standard treatment protocol for the management of uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) at the community level. OTP has been scaled up and integrated into the existing grassroots level government health systems in several developing countries. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Det välnärda barnet : Föreställningar och politik i skolmåltidens historia

    Författare :Eva Gullberg; Bengt Sandin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; History of School Meals; History of Childhood; Visions on Childhood; Welfare State; Food Politics; Notions on Food and Eating; Public Health; Skolmåltider; Historia; Sverige; 1900-talet; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden is nearly unique in providing and publicly funding meals for all schoolchildren. The current debate shows that the policy of providing school meals is universally accepted. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Health implications of dietary intake in infancy and early childhood

    Författare :Inger Öhlund; Agneta Hörnell; Olle Hernell; Torbjörn Lind; Inga Thorsdottir; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Infant nutrition; child nutrition; child health; serum lipids; iron status; caries; BMI;

    Sammanfattning : Introduction: Swedish children are the healthiest in Europe. Through regular visits to well-baby clinics, infants and young children are checked and parents given information and advice on diet and other relevant matters for their child. LÄS MER