Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence base for effective public health interventions which aim … to improve the diet of children aged zero to three years. Design/methodology/approach – General review. Findings – Key …, culturally acceptable health care provider, sufficient intensity of intervention, and an intervention which targets parental self …

transfers to women are more likely to be spent on their children's health, nutrition, and education and thus to reinforce the … programs that pay households cash stipends in exchange for school attendance and regular visits to health clinics by the … children. A key feature is that payments go to the female head of household. Previous research suggests that exogenous …

Severely reduced height-for-age due to undernutrition is widespread in young African children, with serious … implications for their health and later economic productivity. It is primarily caused by growth faltering due to hunger spells in … critical periods of early child development. We assess the impact on early childhood nutrition, measured as height-for-age, of …

We estimate the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children … from 1980 to 1992 that limited sponsorship to children twelve years old or younger when the program was introduced in a … village, allowing comparisons of sponsored children with older siblings who were slightly too old to be sponsored. Estimations …

-specific random errors). Estimates of the prevalence of stunting and underweight for children under age 5 in Cambodia from 17 … Demographic and Health Survey strata are disaggregated into 1,594 communes by combining the Demographic and Health Survey data …

. Marketing segmentation techniques applied to self-reported food consumption can offer benefits to both health policy and … inform health policymakers by explaining reported calorie intake patterns more thoroughly than demographics alone, aiding …

. Originality/value – This is the very study that attempts to look at the nutrition-income elasticities at cross-country level in …

strategies of innovative institutional structures in translating such integration in the areas of public health and nutrition for … innovations in health and nutrition programming in the resource‐poor state of Chhattisgarh, India, at different levels of … convergence between health and nutrition departments of the state at all levels. Also, innovative structures are important to …