Ingrid M le Roux, Karl le Roux, W Scott Comulada, Erin M Greco, Katherine A Desmond, Nokwanele Mbewu, and Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus A study has found that paraprofessional Mentor Mothers are an effective strategy for delivering home visiting programs by providing the knowledge and support necessary to change the behavior of families at risk. The […]
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Koen F M Joosten, Henrike Zwart, Wim C Hop, and Jessie M Hulst A nationwide study has shown that 19% of children admitted to Dutch hospitals are malnourished at admission. This high prevalence underlines the need for routine screening and treatment of malnutrition in hospitalized children. This prospective observational study investigated the prevalence of malnutrition […]
Gomila AA, De Grandis ES, Visconti GB, Montero SB, Bertero MI, Marietti G, Crespo D, Pico AN, Bianchi M, Gomila H A. The prevalences of malnutrition and anaemia are high among the children admitted to Hospital de Niños de la Santísima Trinidad. Córdoba The objective of the present study was to describe the nutritional status […]
Casey Olives, Marcello Pagano, Megan Deitchler, Bethany L. Hedt, Kari Egge and Joseph J. Valadez Cluster sampling schemes offer both time efficient and statistically valid alternatives to the conventional methodology for assessment of acute malnutrition in emergency settings. The study “Cluster Designs to Assess the Prevalence of Acute Malnutrition by Lot Quality Assurance Sampling: A […]
March 2009, Issue 35 of Field Exchange has been released by Emergency Nutrition Network. Among the Field articles, Research and News & Views presented in this issue were: The CTC advisory service: Supporting the Country-wide scale up of CTC in Malawi New method for assessing acute malnutrition in nomadic pastoralist populations Impact of WHO standards […]
MM Hossain, MQ Hassan, MH Rahman, A KABIR, AH Hannan AND AKMF Rahman In Bangladesh, Treatment of severe malnutrition with locally adapted ICMH protocol using locally available foods is as efficacious as the WHO protocol. This study compared the effectiveness of locally adapted Institute of Child and Mother Health (ICMH) protocol with the WHO protocol […]
Hossain MI, Dodd NS, Ahmed T, Miah GM, Jamil KM, Nahar B, Alam B, Mahmood CB. Journal of Health Popul Nutr. 2009 Feb;27(1):72-9 Experience in managing severe malnutrition in a government tertiary treatment facility in Bangladesh has demonstrated the potential of addressing severe acute malnutrition (with complications) effectively with minimum incremental expenditure in Bangladesh. One […]
Sheila Isanaka, BA, Eduardo Villamor, MD, DrPHa, Susan Shepherd, MDc and Rebecca F. Grais, PhD, The World Health Organization standards with the z-score criterion might become a useful tool for the early detection of acute malnutrition in children, although additional research on the resource implications of this transition is required OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study […]
Thandi Puoane, Katie Cuming, David Sanders, and Ann Ashworth Despite training and support aimed at implementing the WHO case-management guidelines for SAM, some hospitals reduced their case-fatality rates by at least half, whereas others did not. Pouane and colleagues found that staff in the successful hospitals were more attentive and assiduous than staff in the […]