, Pakistan, and Nepal) and two from Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and Uganda) -- this paper conducts a systematic assessment of … the correlation between various measures of household food security and nutritional outcomes of children. The analysis … signals about the nutritional status of children that reside within the household. This result holds even after the analysis …

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental … factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually affect child health, so it is helpful to use alternative tools …

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate … caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on …

together account for 90 percent of the world's stunted children. The first calculation asks how much lower a country's per …. The second calculation estimates the economic value and the costs associated with scaling up a package of nutrition … 10 nutrition interventions for which data are available on the effects and costs. The estimated rate-of-return from …

This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status …. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …

Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to … being the main driver. This highlights the importance of considering the food environment to inform public health policies …

among young nonbeneficiary children by 34 percent (11 percentage points). Price and stunting effects increase in program …

program started, reducing the share of children with weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the World Health … transfer programs to help boost child health and education outcomes. The evidence on the impact of conditional cash transfers … on health and education outcomes, however, is mixed. This paper uses panel data from a pilot project and evaluates the …