Childhood stunting remains a significant public health challenge with adverse developmental and health outcomes in life and over generations. Efficacious dietary interventions have not achieved full linear growth in height deficient children. This dissertation explores novel cau…
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This study evaluates the impact of women's decision making power and attitudes about themselves in Egypt on three dimensions of child health: stunting, wasting and underweight. This study seeks to understand how women's perceived decision making power and self-perception affect …
Data from the Ondo State Demographic and Health Survey were utilized to determine (a) agreements between nutritional measures; (b) prevalence rates of and (c) factors associated with abnormal nutritional anthropometry (stunting and wasting) in 6-36 month old infants and children…
In Syria, 3.5 million are classified as rural poor. Rural women and children, suffer the most from poverty and its physical and social deprivations. A study compared differences in child growth and nutrition in three rural livelihood groups: a ‘barley-livestock’ group, an ‘olive…
Background: This research aims to explore the recommendations of the 2013 Lancet Series on maternal and child nutrition in the case study of Yemen (2013-2014), by answering the question “What mix of public interventions works best in a given context to reduce child stunting prev…
Aflatoxin, produced by the fungi Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, is the most potent naturally occurring human hepatocarcinogen. Food crops colonized by these fungi, especially maize and groundnut, are the major sources of dietary aflatoxin exposure. Aflatoxin and chronic …