Impact evaluation of child nutrition programmes

Evaluation of National Nutrition Programmes

Evaluating child survival programmes.

a Department of Social Medicine, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil. b Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. Correspondence to Cesar G Victora (e-mail: [email protected]). Renewed global interest in newborn and child survival has generated many programmes in lowand middle-income countries. There is an urgent need fo...

Maternal and Child Nutrition 3 Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition?

Acceleration of progress in nutrition will require effective, large-scale nutrition-sensitive programmes that address key underlying determinants of nutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness of nutrition-specific interventions. We reviewed evidence of nutritional effects of programmes in four sectors—agriculture, social safety nets, early child development, and schooling. The need fo...

Impact of Wealth Inequality on Child Nutrition in Bangladesh

The aim of this study was to assess the economic difference in nutrition of under-five children. Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey data 2011 were used for this study. In this study, quintiles were calculated on the basis of asset and wealth score by use of principal component analysis. To understand the nutrition status and health inequality concentration index was also calculated. The ratio...

Program Evaluation with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Selective Implementation: the Mexican Progresa Impact on Child Nutrition

The assessment of the impact of social programs is the subject of lively, sometimes heated debate over whether program evaluation is best conducted either by comparing mean outcomes from a randomized intervention or by using econometric techniques with nonrandom samples. This paper contributes to this debate through an examination of PROGRESA, a Mexican anti-poverty and human resource program, ...