Vitamin A Supplementation and Child Morbidity and Mortality in Developing Countries

Vitamin A supplementation on child morbidity.

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of vitamin A supplementation on child morbidity and nutritional status. DESIGN A community based follow-up (interventional) in nature. SETTING Two randomly selected Weredas (districts) of Tigray, North Ethiopia were studied between 1996 and 1997. SUBJECTS Four thousand seven hundred and seventy children aged between six and 72 months, selected using a mul...

Vitamin A supplementation in developing countries.

Effectiveness of Vitamin A Supplementation in the Control of Young Child Morbidity and Mortality in Developing Countries - Nutrition policy discussion paper No. 13

This report presents conclusive evidence that improving the vitamin A status of young children reduced mortality rates by about 23%. The evidence relates to population groups in which there was evidence that vitamin A deficiency was sufficiently prevalent and sufficiently severe to give rise to at least a low prevalence of clinical signs of deficiency. The observed effect of vitamin A supplemen...

Impact of supplementation with zinc and vitamin A in growth rate and morbidity of respiratory and diarrhea infections in infants

Introduction: Supplementation is a simple and effective intervention method in public health for control of parasite and infectious diseases in infants. The current study was conducted to determine the effect of supplementation with zinc and vitamin A in growth rate and morbidity of respiratory and diarrhea infections. Methods: In a randomized clinical trial, 628 infant between 6-60 month...

Maternal height and child mortality in 42 developing countries.

Previous research reports mixed results about the association between maternal height and child mortality. Some studies suggest that the negative association might be stronger in contexts with fewer resources. This hypothesis has yet not been tested in a cross-nationally comparative design. We use data on 307,223 children born to 194,835 women in 444 districts of 42 developing countries to esti...