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Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Maternal and Child Nutrition, Volume 14, No. 2, Article e12526, Year 2018
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Description
Nutrition-sensitive interventions to improve overall diet quality are increasingly needed to improve maternal and child health. This study demonstrates feasibility of a structured process to leverage local expertise in formulating programmes tailored for current circumstances in South Asia and Africa. We assembled 41 stakeholders in 2 regional workshops and followed a prespecified protocol to elicit programme designs listing the human and other resources required, the intervention's mechanism for impact on diets, target foods and nutrients, target populations, and contact information for partners needed to implement the desired programme. Via this protocol, participants described 48 distinct interventions, which we then compared against international recommendations and global goals. Local stakeholders' priorities focused on postharvest food systems to improve access to nutrient-dense products (75% of the 48 programmes) and on production of animal sourced foods (58%), as well as education and social marketing (23%) and direct transfers to meet food needs (12.5%). Each programme included an average of 3.2 distinct elements aligned with those recommended by United Nations system agencies in the Framework for Action produced by the Second International Conference on Nutrition in 2014 and the Compendium of Actions for Nutrition developed for the Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger initiative in 2016. Our results demonstrate that a participatory process can help local experts identify their own priorities for future investments, as a first step in a novel process of rigorous, transparent, and independent priority setting to improve diets among those at greatest risk of undernutrition. © 2017 The Authors. Maternal and Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Available Materials
https://efashare.b-cdn.net/share/pmc/articles/PMC5901374/bin/MCN-14-e12526-s001.docx
Authors & Co-Authors
Masters, William A.
United States, Medford
Tufts University
Rosettie, Katherine L.
United States, Medford
Tufts University
Kranz, Sarah
United States, Medford
Tufts University
Pedersen, Sarah H.
United States, Medford
Tufts University
Danaei, Goodarz
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Mozaffarian, Dariush
United States, Medford
Tufts University
Adekugbe, Olayinka
Unknown Affiliation
Amatya, Archana G.
Unknown Affiliation
Egata, Gudina
Unknown Affiliation
Badham, Jane M.
Unknown Affiliation
Bhattacharjee, Lalita I.
Unknown Affiliation
Bhattarai, Manav
Unknown Affiliation
Baye, Kaleab
Unknown Affiliation
Beyero, Mesfin
Unknown Affiliation
Brahmbhatt, Viral Vishnuprasad
Unknown Affiliation
Chandrasekhar, S.
Unknown Affiliation
Chandyo, Ram Krishna
Unknown Affiliation
Christensen, Cheryl
Unknown Affiliation
Covic, Namukolo Margaret
Unknown Affiliation
Dalton, Babukiika
Unknown Affiliation
Desai, Sonalde
Unknown Affiliation
Dufour, Charlotte
Unknown Affiliation
Fracassi, Patrizia
Unknown Affiliation
Getahun, Zewditu
Unknown Affiliation
Gulati, Seema
Unknown Affiliation
Haidar, Jemal Ali
Unknown Affiliation
Bekele, Tesfaye Hailu
Unknown Affiliation
Kapil, Umesh C.
Unknown Affiliation
Kazi-Hutchins, Nabeeha
Unknown Affiliation
Kebede, Aweke
Unknown Affiliation
Kinabo, Joyce Ludovick D.
Unknown Affiliation
Kussaga, Jamal Bakari
Unknown Affiliation
Levin, Carol E.
Unknown Affiliation
Mavrotas, George
Unknown Affiliation
Mehta, Ranju
Unknown Affiliation
Mohan, Sailesh
Unknown Affiliation
Mwanja, Wilson Waiswa
Unknown Affiliation
Oguntona, Babatunde E.
Unknown Affiliation
Oladipo, Abiodun
Unknown Affiliation
Oniang'O, Ruth K.
Unknown Affiliation
Paarlberg, Robert L.
Unknown Affiliation
Prabhakaran, Dorairaj
Unknown Affiliation
Prakash, Vish
Unknown Affiliation
Puri, Seema
Unknown Affiliation
Roy, S. K.
Unknown Affiliation
Sharma, Rekha S.
Unknown Affiliation
Shivakoti, Sabnam
Unknown Affiliation
Sibanda, Simbarashe
Unknown Affiliation
Sodjinou, Roger S.
Unknown Affiliation
Thorne-Lyman, Andrew Lucian
Unknown Affiliation
Tom, Carol
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Trilok-Kumar, Geeta
Unknown Affiliation
Vosti, Stephen A.
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Wamani, Henry
Unknown Affiliation
Wendelin, Akwilina
Unknown Affiliation
Statistics
Citations: 9
Authors: 55
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/mcn.12526
ISSN:
17408695
Research Areas
Food Security
Health System And Policy
Maternal And Child Health
Study Design
Randomised Control Trial