Dietary guidelines for India 2024
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
Child Health
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Impact of salinity on infant and neonatal mortality in Bangladesh
In this paper, the impact of salinity on maternal and child health in Bangladesh is analyzed using data from the Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys. A U-shaped association between drinking water salinity
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Outpatient antibiotic prescription rate and pattern in the private sector in India: Evidence from medical audit data
<p>The key objective of this research was to generate new evidence on outpatient antibiotic prescription rate and patterns in the private sector in India. We used 12-month period (May 2013 to April 2014)
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Children need clean water to grow: E. Coli contamination of drinking water and childhood nutrition in Bangladesh
Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions are increasingly recognized as essential for improving nutritional outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation
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Consumption, production, market access and affordability of nutritious foods in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
Poor dietary quality is a significant risk factor for stunting and micronutrient deficiencies among young children and globally one of the leading causes of premature death and disease (Arimond & Ruel,
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For every child, every right: the Convention on the Rights of the Child at a crossroads
On 20 November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a landmark achievement that has since become the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty.
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Comprehensive national nutrition survey 2016–2018
The first ever Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey exposes the shocking state of Indian children’s nutritional status, but this is apparently not an issue of major concern for the government or the
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Comprehensive national nutrition survey 2016–2018
The first ever Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey exposes the shocking state of Indian children’s nutritional status, but this is apparently not an issue of major concern for the government or the
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NMR-based metabolomics in pediatric drug resistant epilepsy – preliminary results
<p>Epilepsy in children is the mostfrequent, heterogeneous and difcultto classify chronic neurologic condition with the etiology found in 35–40% of patients.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/pediatric-drug-resistant-epilepsy.pdf"
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Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2019 rural livelihoods assessment
The assessment was carried out in an environment where the Government had set in moon a Transional Stabilizaon Programme (TSP) in a bid to set the economy on a recovery path aer years of stagnaon. The
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Summary Report for the Drought and Household Food Security Vulnerability Assessment 2018/19
The purpose of this summary report is to present a synopsis of the findings derived from the 2018/19 Drought and Household Food Security Assessment. The overall objective of the assessment is to determine