Estimating the impact of vitamin A-fortified vegetable oil in Bangladesh in the absence of dietary assessment data

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 414-420

  Fiedler, John L ^a   Lividini, Keith ^a   Bermudez, Odilia I ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Fortification; Household surveys; Micronutrients; Nutrition; Policy; Vegetable oil; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

EDIBLE OIL; RETINOL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; BANGLADESH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FAMILY SIZE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; DIETARY FATS, UNSATURATED; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUTRITION POLICY; PLANT OILS; PREVALENCE; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84921325383     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014000640     Document Type: Article

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