Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 is causing reductions in health care access and may lead to 42 to 66 million more children living in extreme poverty. Crowded housing and lack of access to water and sanitation make physical distancing and handwashing difficult, and researchers anticipate increases in domestic and sexual violence and the loss of caregivers. Multi-sectorial interventions to address health care, economic and food security, violence, and family support for illness and death are critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Significant associations exist between household food insecurity and several early childhood development domains, including developmental risk, vocabulary skills, and math skills; while there are marginal associations with school readiness, reading, and motor development. It is important for researchers to have standardized methods and clear definitions of domains to increase comparability globally.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Using functional difficulty associated with learning (FDAL) data from Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys as a proxy indicator for intellectual disability risks may produce false negative errors in low- and-middle income countries and false positive errors among those with higher socioeconomic status. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
While promising interventions exist to improve nutritional intake, addressing malnutrition requires multifactorial approaches. For interventions to successfully transform into large-scale policy programs, research must focus on maximizing compliance and sustainability. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A cohort of children who participated in a nutritional supplementation intervention from 1969–1977 has been followed since. Follow-up studies demonstrate strong evidence of the impact of investments in nutrition, health, and childcare in the first 1,000 days on child development, well-being, and human capital later in life. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The period from pregnancy to age 3 is when children are most susceptible to extreme poverty, gender inequities, violence, toxins, and poor mental health. Parents and other caretakers need information, resources, and services to provide nurturing care. Practitioners should implement high-quality interventions that simultaneously target multiple risks and build on existing delivery platforms to enhance scaling and sustainability. This chapter is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Cross-national associations exist between socio-emotional and cognitive delay and parental physical discipline, not having books, and not counting with the child. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 requires health care, social services, childcare, and other sectors to address rapidly changing governmental policies. Priorities include early years health and nutrition services, parent coaching and support through remote means, childcare services, mental health services to caregivers and families with young children, and investments to prevent and address domestic violence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Addressing the double burden of malnutrition requires attention to diet-related maternal and child health (MCH) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Identifying a unified global dietary quality metric that can measure the relative contributions of MCH and NCD to malnutrition would help policy and programmatic decision-making.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fisheries can address malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies with critical nutrients, such as fatty acids, zinc, iron, calcium, and vitamins. Overfishing, climate change, and international trade reduce local availability of nutritious and affordable fish in low income countries. Policy reforms that shift management focus of fisheries as a commodity provider to a domestic public health asset to ensure food- and nutrient-security are critical. This article is behind a paywall.