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A community-based cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of different bundles of nutrition-specific interventions in improving mean length-for-age z score among children at 24 months of age in rural Bangladesh: study proto

scientific article

A program impact pathway analysis identifies critical steps in the implementation and utilization of a behavior change communication intervention promoting infant and child feeding practices in Bangladesh

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

A situational review of infant and young child feeding practices and interventions in Viet Nam

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Age-appropriate infant and young child feeding practices are associated with child nutrition in India: insights from nationally representative data

scientific article

Age-based preventive targeting of food assistance and behaviour change and communication for reduction of childhood undernutrition in Haiti: a cluster randomised trial

scientific article published in February 2008

Anaemia in infancy in rural Bangladesh: contribution of iron deficiency, infections and poor feeding practices

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Assessing implementation fidelity of a community-based infant and young child feeding intervention in Ethiopia identifies delivery challenges that limit reach to communities: a mixed-method process evaluation study

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Assessing supervisory and motivational factors in the context of a program evaluation in rural Haiti

scientific article published in March 2008

Assessing the Economic Feasibility of Assuring Nutritionally Adequate Diets for Vulnerable Populations in Uttar Pradesh, India: Findings from a "Cost of the Diet" Analysis

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Bringing rigor to evaluations of large-scale programs to improve infant and young child feeding and nutrition: the evaluation designs for the Alive & Thrive initiative

scientific article published in September 2013

Building Convergence in Science, Programs, and Policy Actions on Child Undernutrition: Symposium Rationale and Overview ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

Can integrated interventions create the conditions that support caregiving for better child growth?

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Changes in Underlying Determinants Explain Rapid Increases in Child Linear Growth in Alive & Thrive Study Areas between 2010 and 2014 in Bangladesh and Vietnam

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Changes in the policy environment for infant and young child feeding in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia, and the role of targeted advocacy

scientific article

Combining Intensive Counseling by Frontline Workers with a Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Has Large Differential Impacts on Complementary Feeding Practices but Not on Child Growth: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Constraints on the delivery of animal-source foods to infants and young children: case studies from five countries

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Different Combinations of Behavior Change Interventions and Frequencies of Interpersonal Contacts Are Associated with Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Early marriage and early childbearing in South Asia: trends, inequalities, and drivers from 2005 to 2018

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Effect of Differences in Month and Location of Measurement in Estimating Prevalence and Trend of Wasting and Stunting in India in 2005-2006 and 2015-2016

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Engagement of Husbands in a Maternal Nutrition Program Substantially Contributed to Greater Intake of Micronutrient Supplements and Dietary Diversity during Pregnancy: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh

article published in 2018

Estimating the cost of delivering direct nutrition interventions at scale: national and subnational level insights from India.

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Exposure to Large-Scale Social and Behavior Change Communication Interventions Is Associated with Improvements in Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Ethiopia

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Exposure to mass media and interpersonal counseling has additive effects on exclusive breastfeeding and its psychosocial determinants among Vietnamese mothers

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Factors influencing maternal nutrition practices in a large scale maternal, newborn and child health program in Bangladesh

scientific article

Factors influencing the uptake of a mass media intervention to improve child feeding in Bangladesh.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

From efficacy to public health impact: a call for research on program delivery and utilization in nutrition

scientific article published on March 2008

Household Food Insecurity Is Associated with Higher Child Undernutrition in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam, but the Effect Is Not Mediated by Child Dietary Diversity

scholarly article by Disha Ali et al published 2 October 2013 in Journal of Nutrition

Household food insecurity is associated with higher child undernutrition in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam, but the effect is not mediated by child dietary diversity

scholarly article by Disha Ali et al published December 2013 in Journal of Nutrition

Importance of coverage and quality for impact of nutrition interventions delivered through an existing health programme in Bangladesh

article

Incorporating elements of social franchising in government health services improves the quality of infant and young child feeding counselling services at commune health centres in Vietnam

scientific article

Indicators of family care for development for use in multicountry surveys

scientific article published on December 2012

Infant and young child feeding practices and child undernutrition in Bangladesh: insights from nationally representative data ⬇️

scientific article published on May 8, 2012

Integrating Nutrition Interventions into an Existing Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program Increased Maternal Dietary Diversity, Micronutrient Intake, and Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices in Bangladesh: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Progra

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Is Exposure to Animal Feces Harmful to Child Nutrition and Health Outcomes? A Multicountry Observational Analysis

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Large-Scale Behavior-Change Initiative for Infant and Young Child Feeding Advanced Language and Motor Development in a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh

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Learning how programs achieve their impact: embedding theory-driven process evaluation and other program learning mechanisms in alive & thrive

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Maternal Knowledge after Nutrition Behavior Change Communication Is Conditional on Both Health Workers' Knowledge and Knowledge-Sharing Efficacy in Rural Haiti

article

Maternal and child dietary diversity are associated in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Ethiopia

scientific article published on 8 May 2013

Maternal behavioural determinants and livestock ownership are associated with animal source food consumption among young children during fasting in rural Ethiopia

scientific article published on 18 October 2018

Maternal depressive symptoms are negatively associated with child growth and development: Evidence from rural India

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Maternal knowledge after nutrition behavior change communication is conditional on both health workers' knowledge and knowledge-sharing efficacy in rural Haiti

scholarly article by Mduduzi N N Mbuya et al published December 2013 in Journal of Nutrition

Maternal mental health is associated with child undernutrition and illness in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ethiopia

scientific article published on 3 May 2013

Maternal willingness to pay for infant and young child nutrition counseling services in Vietnam

scientific article

Measuring coverage of infant and young child feeding counselling interventions: A framework and empirical considerations for survey question design

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Nutrition Interventions Integrated into an Existing Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program Reduce Food Insecurity Among Recently Delivered and Pregnant Women in Bangladesh

article

Nutrition agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation: lessons from the Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative ⬇️

scientific article published on February 3, 2011

Organizational factors, planning capacity, and integration challenges constrain provincial planning processes for nutrition in decentralizing Vietnam

scientific article published on September 2014

Pathways from women's group-based programs to nutrition change in South Asia: A conceptual framework and literature review.

scientific article published on 23 June 2018

Predictors of Essential Health and Nutrition Service Delivery in Bihar, India: Results From Household and Frontline Worker Surveys

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Program impact pathway analysis of a social franchise model shows potential to improve infant and young child feeding practices in Vietnam

scientific article published on 20 August 2014

Progress in improving provincial plans for nutrition through targeted technical assistance and local advocacy in Vietnam

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

Prospective analysis of the development of the national nutrition agenda in Vietnam from 2006 to 2008.

scientific article published on 17 February 2011

Reducing stunting in India: what investments are needed?

scientific article published on May 2016

Scaling up impact on nutrition: what will it take?

scientific article (publication date: July 2015)

Scaling-up interventions to improve infant and young child feeding in India: What will it take?

scientific article published in October 2017

Social Franchising and a Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Increased the Prevalence of Adequate Complementary Feeding in Vietnam: A Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation

scientific article published on 08 February 2017

Specificity Matters: Unpacking Impact Pathways of Individual Interventions within Bundled Packages Helps Interpret the Limited Impacts of a Maternal Nutrition Intervention in India

scientific article published in 2021

Stop stunting: improving child feeding, women's nutrition and household sanitation in South Asia.

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Strengthening implementation and utilization of nutrition interventions through research: a framework and research agenda

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Strengthening policy research on infant and young child feeding: An imperative to support countries in scaling up impact on nutrition

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Supply- and Demand-Side Factors Influencing Utilization of Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Services in Viet Nam

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The Pathways from a Behavior Change Communication Intervention to Infant and Young Child Feeding in Bangladesh Are Mediated and Potentiated by Maternal Self-Efficacy.

scientific article published in February 2018

The nutrition and health risks faced by pregnant adolescents: Insights from a cross-sectional study in Bangladesh

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The nutrition policy process: the role of strategic capacity in advancing national nutrition agendas

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The politics of reducing malnutrition: building commitment and accelerating progress

scientific article published on 06 June 2013

Trends and drivers of change in the prevalence of anaemia among 1 million women and children in India, 2006 to 2016

article by Phuong Hong Nguyen et al published 2018 in BMJ Global Health

Understanding the geographical burden of stunting in India: A regression-decomposition analysis of district-level data from 2015-16

article by Purnima Menon et al published October 2018 in Maternal Child Nutrition

Understanding the role of intersectoral convergence in the delivery of essential maternal and child nutrition interventions in Odisha, India: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Using programme theory to assess the feasibility of delivering micronutrient Sprinkles through a food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programme in rural Haiti

scientific article published on January 2009

Women's empowerment in agriculture and child nutritional status in rural Nepal

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

World Health Organization infant and young child feeding indicators and their associations with child anthropometry: a synthesis of recent findings

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

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