PUBHLTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kakuma, Micronutrient Deficiency, Sub-Saharan Africa
29 May 2016
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Lessons learned from the mnp program at kakuma refugee camp: increased the view of detailed, multistage formative research and careful product introduction. Seen as essential to successful behavior change interventions that use specialized food commodities to improve nutrition of vulnerable populations. Low-quality diets lead to substantial burdens of preventable nutrition-related morbidity and mortality globally. Maternal and child undernutrition is most common in low income and middle income countries: in sub-saharan africa and south-central asia, 178 million children under 5 are stunted and 55 million are wasted. Global nutrition efforts have significant political influence due to the millennium goals. In most countries, twice as many poor children as wealthier children suffer from chronic malnutrition: however, resolving this through reversing economic policies is nearly impossible. Behavior-change interventions may have the potential to address maternal and child malnutrition: include dietary intake and health status, reduce the malnutrition by reducing rates of stunting, micronutrient deficiencies, and child deaths, examples include strategies to promote:
