Assessing program coverage of two approaches to distributing a complementary feeding supplement to infants and young children in Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Aaron, Grant J ^a   Strutt, Nicholas ^b   Boateng, Nathaniel Amoh ^c   Guevarra, Ernest ^d   Siling, Katja ^d   Norris, Alison ^d   Ghosh, Shibani ^b,e   Nyamikeh, Mercy ^f   Attiogbe, Antoine ^f   Burns, Richard ^g   Foriwa, Esi ^h   Toride, Yasuhiko ⁱ   Kitamura, Satoshi ⁱ   Tano Debrah, Kwaku ^c   Sarpong, Daniel ^c   Myatt, Mark ^j  

^a GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION   (Switzerland)

^b International Nutrition Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^d VALID INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CARE International in Ghana   (Ghana)

^g Exp Social Marketing   (Ghana)

^h Ministry of Lands Forestry and Mines Ghana   (Ghana)

ⁱ AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^j Brixton Health   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD; COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MARKET; MODEL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL MARKETING; WORKER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; INFANT NUTRITION; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84992111844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162462     Document Type: Article

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