Search Results - subject:"infant feeding"

Pathways to Better Health? Assessing the Impact of Ethiopian Community-Based Health Insurance on Children Health Outcomes

Anteneh, Zecharias; Celidoni, Martina; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2023

Publicly financed Community Based-Health Insurance (CBHI) schemes are typically implemented in developing countries to foster healthcare utilization and improve health outcomes among low-income households. Using the Demographic and Health Survey from 2005 to 2016, we estimate the effects of the...

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Pathways to better health? : assessing the impact of Ethiopian community-based health insurance on children health outcomes

Anteneh, Zecharias; Celidoni, Martina; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2023 - This version: 31/12/2022

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Formula feeding : evidence for health, nutrition and early childhood development during the critical first 1000 days from rural China

Yue, Ai; Cui, Manlin; Yang, Zhengliang; Shi, Yaojiang; … - In: Journal of Asian economics 85 (2023), pp. 1-17

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Infant feeding attitude and infant feeding methods among Macao hospital postpartum women

Dai, Hong-xia - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

Objective: To study infant-feeding attitude and feeding methods among Macao postpartum women in hospital. Methods: From … completed a questionnaire on infant feeding at postpartum 3 days before discharge. The questionnaires included demographic …, infant feeding methods and the Macau Chinese version of IIFAS scale. The intra-class correlations (ICC) of the Macau Chinese …

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Infant Feeding Practices and Food Consumption Patterns of Children Participating in WIC

Deming, Denise M.; Briefel, Ronette R.; Reidy, Kathleen C. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

Findings identify feeding and dietary issues that begin during infancy and are also present in toddler and preschool stages. These findings are useful for WIC nutritionists and health care practitioners to encourage the early development of healthful eating patterns.

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The Potential for Integrating Community-Based Nutrition and Postpartum Family Planning: Review of Evidence and Experience in Low-Income Settings

Alvesson, Helle M.; Mulder-Sibanda, Menno - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

The objective of this review was to study where community-based family planning and nutrition programs have been integrated, how this has been accomplished, and what the results have been. Although family planning is a nontraditional intervention in community-based nutrition programs, it can...

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Early supplementary feeding among central African foragers and farmers: A biocultural approach

Meehan, Courtney L.; Roulette, Jennifer W. - In: Social Science & Medicine 96 (2013) C, pp. 112-120

takes into consideration that infant feeding is influenced by an array of evolutionary, physiological, structural … that, when combined with evidence of human care patterns, offers a more holistic understanding of early infant feeding. We … and are essential participants in childcare and provisioning, yet are rarely viewed as active participants in early infant …

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Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study: Improvements Needed in Meeting Infant Feeding Recommendations

Briefel, Ronette R.; Reidy, Kathleen; Karwe, Vatsala; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2004

More parents and caregivers can benefit from guidance about the introduction of developmentally appropriate, micronutrient-rich first solid foods such as iron-rich infant cereals, iron-fortified grain products, meats, soft fruits, and cooked vegetables and the importance of breastfeeding through...

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Feeding Patterns and Emotional Care in Breastfed Infants

Smith, Julie; Ellwood, Mark - In: Social Indicators Research 101 (2011) 2, pp. 227-231

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Suckling and Silence in the USA: The Costs and Benefits of Breastfeeding

Galtry, Judith - In: Feminist Economics 3 (1997) 3, pp. 1-24

infant feeding emphasizes personal preference on the part of individual women there are, in fact, significant economic and … employment-related factors which impinge on infant feeding options. In particular, those women in the most disadvantaged …

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