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Salud, interculturalidad y comportamiento de riesgo
GRADE - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
El objetivo principal del primer estudio, “El rol de las percepciones y los conocimientos de las madres en el estado nutricional de sus niños”, de Alcázar, Marini y Walker, es analizar los factores determinantes de la desnutrición infantil (talla para la edad de los niños menores de 2...
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Efficiency of Planning, Programming and Delivery of Social Protection Programs on Early Years
Sabbih, Moustafa Amir; Coudouel, Aline; Rahman, Aneeka
Investing in children's human capital is one of the most critical investments a country can make to break the cycle of … life, is critical for children's physical, cognitive, and socioemotional growth and development. And children who are left …
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Routine Emergency Department Use for Sick Care by Children in the United States
Halfon, Neal; Newacheck, Paul W.; Wood, David L.; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 1996
departments by using a national sample of US children. …
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Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics
Setel, P. W.; Sankoh, O.; Rao, C. P. V.; Velkoff, V. A.; … - 2005
Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...
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The 'growth monitoring teaching aid' rapidly improves mothers' understanding of growth curves
Sohal, H.; Wilkinson, D.; Morley, D. - 1998
due, at least in part, to the exclusion of mothers from the process of growth monitoring. An essential requisite for … greater participation is for mothers to understand the meaning of a growth chart. The 'Growth Monitoring Teaching Aid' (GMTA … curve of a child using water added to a bucket suspended below the direct recording scales. Thirty mothers were divided into …
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Determinants of Children's Influence on Family Purchase Decisions in Kenya
Kiriinya, Stephen Ntuara - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 7, pp. 325-339
The purpose of this paper is to find out the amount of children influence on family purchase decisions. It considers … product types as being the influencing agents that enhance children’ s influence to family purchase decisions. The paper … acknowledges children as being consumers in their own right and not an extension of their parents. Therefore the amount of children …
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Atlas of African agriculture research and development: Revealing agriculture's place in Africa
Sebastian, Kate (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development is a multifaceted resource that high­lights the ubiquitous nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural enterprises; and the strong interde­pendencies among...
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Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
L Indice Globale della Fame 2013 (GHI), relativo ai dati del periodo 2008-2012, mostra che la fame mondiale e diminuita di un terzo rispetto al 1990. Nonostante i progressi, il livello della fame nel mondo rimane "grave", con 870 milioni di persone a soffrirne, secondo le stime...
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2013 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008 to 2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made, the level of hunger in the world remains serious, with 870 million people going hungry, according to estimates...
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Parent Entrepreneurs: to What Extent Can They Influence Their Children to Become Entrepreneurs?
Ayogyam, Alexander - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius. OEconomica (2012) 3(3), pp. 62-75
Many parents have not succeeded in using the mere fact that they are entrepreneurs to influence their children to also … driving force for children. It therefore became necessary to discover other factors which parents could use to create this … influence. A hypothesis was tested and that directed the focus of this study. 303 children who were 18 years and above and had …
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