The focused ethnographic study 'assessing the behavioral and local market environment for improving the diets of infants and young children 6 to 23 months old' and its use in three countries

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2013, Pages 35-46

  Pelto, Gretel H ^a   Armar Klemesu, Margaret ^b   Siekmann, Jonathan ^c   Schofield, Dominic ^c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^c GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complementary feeding; Cultural beliefs and values; Information for decision making; Qualitative research; Social and economic constraints to improving IYC diets

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COST; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FAT INTAKE; GHANA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MARKET; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME; URBAN AREA;

AFGHANISTAN; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DIETARY FATS; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MALE; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; POLICY MAKING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84869837291     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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