Fecal Contamination of Food, Water, Hands, and Kitchen Utensils

January 21, 2014

Fecal Contamination of Food, Water, Hands, and Kitchen Utensils at the Household Level in Rural Areas of Peru. Journal of Environmental Health. Jan/Feb 2014.  A Gil. (Abstract/order info) The study described in this article evaluated sources of contamination of children’s food and drinking water in rural households in the highlands of Peru.  These findings indicate a need […]

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Spoiled breast milk and bad water; local understandings of diarrhea

January 14, 2014

Spoiled breast milk and bad water; local understandings of diarrhea causes and prevention in rural Sierra Leone. BMC Public Health, Dec 2013. S McMahon. (Link) Categorizing behaviors as beneficial, harmful, non-existent or benign enables tailored programmatic recommendations. For example, respondents recognized the value of clean water and we correspondingly recommend interventions that reinforce consumption of […]

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Socio-economic inequalities in malnutrition among children and adolescents in Colombia

January 14, 2014

Socio-economic inequalities in malnutrition among children and adolescents in Colombia: the role of individual-household-and community-level characteristics. Public Health Nutr. 2013 Sep. S Garcia. (Abstract) Children and adolescents living in the poorest households were close to five times more likely to be stunted, while those from the richest households were 1?3–2?8 times more likely than their […]

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Long-term impact of community-based information, education and communication activities

January 14, 2014

Long-term impact of community-based information, education and communication activities on food hygiene and food safety behaviors in Vietnam: a longitudinal study. PLoS ONE, Aug 2013. K. Takanashi. (Link) Ingestion of contaminated water or food is a major contributor to childhood diarrhea in developing countries. In Vietnam, the use of community-based information, education and communication (IEC) […]

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Food hygiene and sanitation in infants and young children

January 14, 2014

Food hygiene and sanitation in infants and young children: A paediatric food-based dietary guideline. South Afr Jnl Clin Nutrition, (26) 2013. L Bourne. (Link) This paper has three related aims. Firstly, it aims to profile the current food hygiene and safety needs of children under the age of five in South Africa. Secondly, to reflect […]

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Enteric Pathogens in Stored Drinking Water and on Caregiver’s Hands

January 14, 2014

Enteric Pathogens in Stored Drinking Water and on Caregiver’s Hands in Tanzanian Households with and without Reported Cases of Child Diarrhea. PLoS One, Jan 2014. M. Mattioli. (Link) The prevalence of enteric pathogen genes and the human-specific Bacteroidales fecal marker in stored water and on hands suggests extensive environmental contamination within homes both with and […]

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Association of food-hygiene practices and diarrhea prevalence

January 14, 2014

Association of food-hygiene practices and diarrhea prevalence among Indonesian young children from low socioeconomic urban areas.  BMC Public Health 2013, 13:977. R Augustina. (Link) Information on the part that poor food-hygiene practices play a role in the development of diarrhea in low socioeconomic urban communities is lacking. This study was therefore aimed at assessing the […]

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Assessing hand hygiene practices in schools benefiting from the Ghana School Feeding Programme

January 14, 2014

Assessing hand hygiene practices in schools benefiting from the Ghana School Feeding Programme. Science Journal of Public Health, 2014; 2(1). I Monney. (Link) School Feeding Programmes have been shown to impact positively on nutritional status and cognition of school children as well as hunger and poverty alleviation. There is however, dearth of information regarding hand […]

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USAID DRAFT Agency-wide Nutrition Strategy

January 14, 2014

USAID DRAFT Agency-wide Nutrition Strategy [public comment sought], December, 2013. (Link) A technical working group, comprised of individuals across USAID, has developed a draft Nutrition Strategy and is seeking public comment.

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Can Transfer Programs be Made More Nutrition Sensitive?

December 26, 2013

Can Transfer Programs be Made More Nutrition Sensitive? 2013.  Full text, pdf Harold Alderman, International Food Policy Research Institute As is commonly presented, nutritional status reflects the interplay of food consumption, access to health and sanitation, and nutrition knowledge and care practices. Social protection programs typically increase income as well as influence the timing and, […]

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