Achieving behaviour change at scale: Alive & Thrive's infant and young child feeding programme in Bangladesh

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 141-154

  Sanghvi, Tina ^a   Haque, Raisul ^b   Roy, Sumitro ^a   Afsana, Kaosar ^b   Seidel, Renata ^a   Islam, Sanjeeda ^a   Jimerson, Ann ^a   Baker, Jean ^a  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Behaviour change; Breastfeeding; Complementary feeding; Hygiene improvement; Scaling up nutrition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; MOTHER; NUTRITION; PROCEDURES;

BANGLADESH; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; NUTRITION SURVEYS;

EID: 84968860901     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12277     Document Type: Article

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