Identifying interventions to help rural Kenyan mothers cope with food insecurity: Results of a focused ethnographic study

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 21-38

  Pelto, Gretel H ^a   Armar Klemesu, Margaret ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Infant and young child nutrition; Multi sectoral interventions; Social and behaviour change communication

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILD WELL BEING; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ECOLOGICAL MODEL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOGRAPHY; FAMILY; FAMILY FOOD; FAMILY STRUCTURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOCUSED ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; FOOD; FOOD ACQUISITION; FOOD AFFORDABILITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INSECURITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD DIET; INFANT FEEDING; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MOTHER; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NUTRITION; NUTRITION SENSITIVE INTERVENTION; NUTRITION SPECIFIC INTERVENTION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WATER ACCESS; WELLBEING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD NUTRITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH EDUCATION; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; KENYA; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; KENYA; MOTHERS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84955146882     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12244     Document Type: Article

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