Building consensus on building latrines

September 5, 2013

Building consensus on building latrines | Source Research shows converging evidence of the key role of open defecation in explaining child stunting in India For two days, leading scholars of child height—economists, epidemiologists, nutritionists, and pediatricians—and government officials gathered at the Delhi School of Economics for a conference supported by the World Bank’s Water and […]

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Growing taller among toilets: Evidence from changes in sanitation and child height in Cambodia

September 5, 2013

Growing taller among toilets: Evidence from changes in sanitation and child height in Cambodia, 2005-2010. 2013. Full text, pdf Phyrum Kov, et al. Rice Institute. Child height is an important indicator of human capital and human development, in large part because early life health and net nutrition shape both height and adult economic productivity and […]

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Forest cover associated with improved child health and nutrition

September 4, 2013

Forest cover associated with improved child health and nutrition: evidence from the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey and satellite data. Glob Health Sci Pract, August 2013. Full text Kiersten B Johnson Healthy forests provide human communities with a host of important ecosystem services, including the provision of food, clean water, fuel, and natural medicines. Yet […]

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Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined WASH and nutritional interventions

September 4, 2013

Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale. BMJ Open 2013;3:e003476 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003476. Full text Benjamin F Arnold, et al Introduction – Enteric infections are common during the first years of life in low-income countries and contribute to growth […]

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Integrating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene into Nutrition Programming

August 22, 2013

Integrating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene into Nutrition Programming, 2013. Full text, pdf WASHplus Diarrhea, pneumonia and birth complications are the top three killers of children under age 5 worldwide. Diarrhea is also a leading cause of undernutrition in this age group and one-third to one-half of all child mortality cases are linked to undernutrition. If […]

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Early child growth: how do nutrition and infection interact?

August 21, 2013

Early child growth: how do nutrition and infection interact? A&T Technical Brief Issue 3, June 2011. (Full-text, pdf) Alive & Thrive. Summary of main points 1. Infections are very common in the first 2 years of a child’s life. 2. Even when there are no obvious symptoms, physiological conditions associated with infections can impair growth […]

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Determinants of reduced child stunting in Cambodia

August 21, 2013

Determinants of reduced child stunting in Cambodia: analysis of pooled data from three Demographic and Health Surveys. WHO Bulletin, Feb 2013. (Full-text, pdf) Nayu Ikeda,a Yuki Irieb & Kenji Shibuyac Objective – To assess how changes in socioeconomic and public health determinants may have contributed to the reduction in stunting prevalence seen among Cambodian children […]

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Interventions to improve water quality and supply, sanitation and hygiene practices, and their effects on the nutritional status

August 21, 2013

Interventions to improve water quality and supply, sanitation and hygiene practices, and their effects on the nutritional status of children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 Aug 1;8:CD009382. Authors: Dangour AD, Watson L, Cumming O, Boisson S, Che Y, Velleman Y, Cavill S, Allen E, Uauy R. Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & […]

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Household Environmental Conditions Are Associated with Enteropathy and Impaired Growth

May 7, 2013

Household Environmental Conditions Are Associated with Enteropathy and Impaired Growth in Rural Bangladesh. Am Jnl Trp Med Hyg, Apr 2013. Link to full text Audrie Lin, et al. We assessed the relationship of fecal environmental contamination and environmental enteropathy. We compared markers of environmental enteropathy, parasite burden, and growth in 119 Bangladeshi children (≤ 48 […]

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Sanitation in Nepal: Links to Nutrition and Research Priorities

May 7, 2013

Sanitation in Nepal: Links to Nutrition and Research Priorities, 2012. Patrick Webb, et al. Tufts University, USAID. (Full text, pdf) In Nepal, diarrhea and other morbidity conditions related to poor sanitation and hygiene continue to be major causes of childhood illness and death. The 2006 NDHS reported that 12% of children under 5 suffer from […]

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