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Nutrient Intakes of US Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers Meet or Exceed Dietary Reference Intakes.

Butte, Nancy F.; Fox, Mary Kay; Briefel, Ronette R.; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

This article notes that nutrient intakes are adequate for the majority of U.S. infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, except for a small but important proportion of infants at risk for inadequate iron and zinc intakes.

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Nutrient Intakes and Food Choices of Infants and Toddlers Participating in WIC

Ponza, Michael; Devaney, Barbara; Ziegler, Paula; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2004

Infants participating in WIC were less likely than nonparticipants to have ever been breastfed or to be currently breastfeeding, and they were more likely to be consuming formula. Mean usual nutrient intakes exceeded the adequate intake for WIC participants, and the percentage with inadequate...

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Nutrient Intakes of Infants and Toddlers

Devaney, Barbara; Zeigler, Paula; Pac, Susan; Karwe, Vatsala - Mathematica Policy Research - 2004

For infants under 12 months of age, mean usual intakes exceeded the adequate intake for all nutrients. For toddlers 12 to 24 months of age, the estimated prevalence of inadequacy was low for most nutrients; however, 58% of toddlers had usual vitamin E intakes less than the estimated average...

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Low malnutrition but high mortality : explaining the puzzle of the Lake Victoria region

Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - 2010

Comparing DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...

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Impact of caregiver incentives on child health : evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in Indi

Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016

This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments...

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The nutritional returns to parental education

Alderman, Harold; Headey, Derek D. - 2014

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Poverty and nutrition : a case study of rural households in Thailand and Viet Nam

Waibel, Hermann; Hohfeld, Lena - 2016

similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children. We find that undernutrition … status. Our conclusion that non-monetary factors matter to reduce undernutrition, and, therefore, monetary poverty reduction … is not a sufficient condition, is further underlined by a prediction of future undernutrition rates based on regressions …

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