Complicated severe acute malnutrition: anthropometric status from Southern Rajasthan, India

Community Case Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Southern Bangladesh

Choosing Anthropometric Indicators to Monitor the Response to Treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition in Rural Southern Ethiopia—Empirical Evidence

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the assessment of nutritional recovery using the same anthropometric indicator that was used to diagnose severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children. However, related empirical evidence from low-income countries is lacking. Non-oedematous children (n = 661) aged 6-59 months admitted to a community-based outpatient therapeutic program for SAM in rur...

Integrated community-based management of severe acute child malnutrition Studies from rural Southern Ethiopia

Tadesse, E. 2016. Integrated community-based management of severe acute child malnutrition. Studies from rural Southern Ethiopia. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1232. 62 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9601-2. Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the community-based Outpatient Therapeutic P...

Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in India: new evidence from Bihar123

Background: An estimated one-third of the world’s children who are wasted live in India. In Bihar state, of children,5 y old, 27.1% are wasted and 8.3% have severe acute malnutrition (SAM). In 2009, M edecins Sans Fronti eres (MSF) initiated a community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) program for children aged 6–59 mo with SAM. Objective: In this report, we describe the characteri...

Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in India: new evidence from Bihar.

BACKGROUND An estimated one-third of the world's children who are wasted live in India. In Bihar state, of children <5 y old, 27.1% are wasted and 8.3% have severe acute malnutrition (SAM). In 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) initiated a community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) program for children aged 6-59 mo with SAM. OBJECTIVE In this report, we describe the characteris...