Objectives: Micronutrient deficiency can have serious health and economic implications. Food fortification with micronutrients is a main strategy countries can use to address population-wide deficiency. The objective was to compare different risk-benefit models that can be used t...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21012
Vandana Joshi, Anirudha Kulkarni, Neelam Bhatnagar, Sandip Ghosh, Pushpendra Kumar Dixit, Ved Prakash Gautam, Tulika Goswami Mahanta, Vani Sethi, Jeroo Master & Victor M. Aguayo·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: To generate evidence on engaging girls' collectives to address anemia and social norms in self-contained, privately-managed tea plantations in India. Methods: In 2006, UNICEF India partnered with a federation of tea companies in Assam's Dibrugarh district, and Twinnin...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21013
Objectives: WHO recommends using information on dietary intakes to design food fortification programs, but nationally-representative, individual dietary data are rarely available in low-income countries. Prior to initiating a fortification program in Cameroon, we assessed intakes...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21014
Introduction: Home-based fortification of complementary food with micronutrient powders (MNPs) has been proven to reduce anemia. In resource constrained contexts - like Madagascar - where child diet is of poor quality and anemia levels high, the challenge lies in finding viable a...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21015
Objectives: Hypertension is public health problem worldwide and the trends of prevalence have increased in economically developing countries. Reducing dietary sodium is one of the main recommendations to treatment hypertension. Restriction of salt consumption could cause a reduct...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21016
Lea Prince, Stephen Vosti, Oula Ouattara, Elodie Becquey, Cesaire Ouedraogo, Sonja Hess, Noel Rouamba, Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo, Kenneth Brown & Klaus Kraemer·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Zinc supplements may decrease incidence of diarrhea among young children at risk of zinc deficiency. We estimated the cost-effectiveness of three approaches for delivery of preventive and therapeutic zinc supplements in rural Burkina Faso. Methods: Cost estimates were...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21017
Objectives: To analyze the factors associated with anemia in pregnancy in the Cascades region in Burkina Faso. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in antenatal clinics of the Cascades region in Burkina Faso during one month from May to June 2012. We collected data on...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21018
Objectives: Reliance on respondents’ individual recall ability for accurate dietary data collection is always a challenge. We developed a photo atlas to aid respondents in recall of foods eaten during the interactive 24 hr recall multiple pass approach for data collection during...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21019
Objectives: To examine means of reaching school and non-school attending adolescent girls for iron supplementation in Tigray region. Methods: The study employed cross-sectional survey consisting of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Stratified multi-stage systematic ra...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21020
Objectives: Treatment of uncomplicated pediatric diarrhea with zinc sulfate plus ORS could avert over 20 percent of worldwide childhood deaths. Results from two household surveys evaluating 3 years of program implementation in Benin highlight the important role of caregiver-healt...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21021
Objectives: The academy of Science of South Africa commissioned a consensus study on improved nutritional assessment of micronutrients in the country. For iron the objectives were to, evaluate usefulness of available indicators for South Africa and other African countries facing...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21022
Objectives: To evaluate the effects of iodine supplementation in mild-to-moderately iodine-deficient pregnant Thai women on maternal thyroid function and birth outcomes. Methods: An RCT with 200 µg KI per day was conducted among 514 mild-to-moderately iodine-deficient pregnant Th...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21023
Objectives: High prevalence of poor pregnancy (miscarriage) and birth (stillbirth) outcomes has been reported among poor women in Ethiopia. This study evaluated the underlining associated factors. Methods: The study used a cross-sectional design to interview 5192 mothers of child...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21024
Kevin Sullivan, Juan Pena-Rosa, Arnold Timmer, Luz De-Regil, Tiffany Gust, Parmi Suchdev, Mary Serdula, Ralph Whitehead, Maria Jefferds, Katherine Tripp, Carine Mapango & Jalal Chowdhury·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: An important component of public health nutrition programs is the periodic assessment of vitamin and mineral nutritional status and coverage of micronutrient interventions. Performing high quality cross-sectional surveys can be enhanced by the availability of guidanc...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21025
Objectives: Although monitoring should be an integral part of any fortification program, little is publicly known about the design, implementation, and results of flour fortification monitoring systems. The objectives are to assess the monitoring systems in three countries includ...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21026