BACKGROUND: In general, maternal knowledge about nutrition and health affects food habits, influencing the child’s nutritional or iron intake. One effort to improve children’s status is by providing education. AIM: The purpose of this study was analyze effect a education intervention on toddlers’ intake prevent anemia among children under five. Paired t-test used differences in knowledge, nutri...

Persistent Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Nutrition and Schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian Earthquake This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous exposure of children to the shock. Th...

BACKGROUND Community-based therapeutic care (CTC) is a new strategy in the arsenal of techniques to manage complex nutritional emergencies in rural communities. The CTC approach uses a newly developed ready-to-use therapeutic food, Plumpynut, to rehabilitate severely malnourished children in their home communities. Emerging literature has suggested the CTC strategy yielded results that were sup...

Existing evidence on the impacts of parental education on child nutrition is plagued by both internal and external validity concerns. In this paper we try to address these concerns through a novel econometric analysis of 376,992 preschool children from 56 developing countries. We compare a naïve least square model to specifications that include cluster fixed effects and cohort-based educational...

The demand for complementary alternative medicine (CAM) has been increasing in both developed and developing countries. A recent survey indicated that (69.4%) of Malaysians have used various forms of Traditional and Complementary Medicine (TCM) and that (55.6%) had used TCM during the twelve months prior to the study. However, health professionals still lack knowledge of CAM. Furthermore, most ...

Good nutritional knowledge and behaviour among adolescents is important to avoid health problems that can continue into adulthood. This cross-sectional study aimed to provide baseline data on nutritional knowledge and eating habits of adolescents in Sharjah. Data were collected from 300 adolescents aged 9-13 years attending 4 private schools using a validated self-administered questionnaire. Mo...

introduction: it is well known that one of the non-organic causes of failure to thrive is the lack of knowledge in mothers regarding feeding habits and this factor can be prevented by training. the purpose of the present study was to find the level of mother’s knowledge regarding feeding habits of infants and its relationship with some ethiological factors in those who are supported by communit...