PUBHLTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Meta-Analysis, Food Fortification, Spinach
4 Feb 2017
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In the 1990"s preschool aged nepali children experienced severe vitamin. A deficiency associated with blindness and risk of child death. With intervention programs, blindness due to vitamin a deficiency in nepali children had significantly decreased by 2000. Vitamin a deficiency was mainly due to lack of proper diet in nepal and the nepali government needed to reduce child mortality and morbidity related to vitamin a deficiency with intervention and ph action. In 1993, nepali government officials initiated the national vitamin a program with isaid/unicef by providing vitamin a capsules to nepali children. Efficient-cost was highly considered in the vitamin a program, which the cost of delivering two rounds of vitamin a per yr. to be about . 25 per child. Nepal"s vitamin a program significantly reduced and prevented blindness in children and mortality rate between 1995 and 2000. Lack of vitamin a causes blindness in children and night blindness in pregnant women, and increase risk of infant and maternal mortality.
