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Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: How Can They Combat Child Malnutrition?

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  • Kathryn G Dewey
  • Mary Arimond

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Kathryn Dewey and Mary Arimond discuss new research in PLOS Medicine that assesses the effect of blanket provision of ready-to-use supplementary food to children at high risk of malnutrition in Chad, and highlight some of the challenges of investigating the efficacy of supplementary foods for malnourished children.

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  • Kathryn G Dewey & Mary Arimond, 2012. "Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: How Can They Combat Child Malnutrition?," PLOS Medicine, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(9), pages 1-2, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pmed00:1001314
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001314
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    1. Alderman, Harold, 2014. "Can transfer programs be made more nutrition sensitive?:," IFPRI discussion papers 1342, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    2. Webb, Patrick & Boyd, Erin & Pee, Saskia de & Lenters, Lindsey & Bloem, Martin & Schultink, Werner, 2014. "Nutrition in emergencies: Do we know what works?," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(P1), pages 33-40.
    3. Adams, Katherine P. & Lybbert, Travis J. & Vosti, Stephen A. & Ayifah, Emmanuel & Arimond, Mary & Adu-Afarwuah, Seth & Dewey, Kathryn G., 2018. "Unintended effects of a targeted maternal and child nutrition intervention on household expenditures, labor income, and the nutritional status of non-targeted siblings in Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 138-150.
    4. Sarah E. Weingarten & Kirk A. Dearden & Benjamin T. Crookston & Mary E. Penny & Jere R. Behrman & Debbie L. Humphries, 2020. "Are Household Expenditures on Food Groups Associated with Children’s Future Heights in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(13), pages 1-23, July.
    5. Rehana A. Salam & Jai K. Das & Omar Irfan & Wardah Ahmed & Sana S. Sheikh & Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, 2020. "Effects of preventive nutrition interventions among adolescents on health and nutritional status in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(2), June.
    6. Katherine P. Adams & Travis J. Lybbert & Stephen A. Vosti & Emmanuel Ayifah, 2016. "Using an economic experiment to estimate willingness-to-pay for a new maternal nutrient supplement in Ghana," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 47(5), pages 581-595, September.
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