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Prognostic value of different anthropometric indices over different measurement intervals to predict mortality in 6–59-month-old children

Briend A, Myatt M, Berkley JA, Black RE, Boyd EM,  et al.
2023-06-01 • Public Health Nutrition
2023-06-01 • Public Health Nutrition
OBJECTIVE
To compare the prognostic value of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) and weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ) for predicting death over periods of...
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Anthropometric criteria for best-identifying children at high risk of mortality: a pooled analysis of twelve cohorts

Khara T, Myatt M, Sadler K, Bahwere P, Berkley JA,  et al.
2023-02-03 • Public Health Nutrition
2023-02-03 • Public Health Nutrition
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To understand which anthropometric diagnostic criteria best discriminate higher from lower risk of death in children and explore programme implications.

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Conceptualizing factors impacting nutrition services coverage of treatment for acute malnutrition in children - an application of the Three Delays Model in Niger

Kodish SR, Allen BGS, Salou H, Schwendler TR, Isanaka S
2021-10-08 • Public Health Nutrition
2021-10-08 • Public Health Nutrition
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The Three Delays Model is a conceptual model traditionally used to understand contributing factors of maternal mortality. It posits that most barriers to health services ut...
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Making progress towards food security: evidence from an intervention in three rural districts of Rwanda

Nsabuwera V, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Khogali MA, Edginton ME, Hinderaker SG,  et al.
2015-08-06 • Public Health Nutrition
2015-08-06 • Public Health Nutrition
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Determining interventions to address food insecurity and poverty, as well as setting targets to be achieved in a specific time period have been a persistent challenge for d...
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Health-seeking behaviour and community perceptions of childhood undernutrition and a community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme in rural Bihar, India: a qualitative study

Burtscher D, Burza S
2015-03-10 • Public Health Nutrition
2015-03-10 • Public Health Nutrition
Objective Since 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières has implemented a community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme in rural Biraul block, Bihar State, India that has admitted o...