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 Community Health and Nutrition Programs

 

DCP2's answers contribute substantially to global initiatives to improve the health of all peoples by providing a multidisciplinary understanding of these fundamental issues and challenges, as well as effective interventions for the range of communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and risk factors.

 

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MICRONUTRIENTS:

Recent Trends in Malnutrition in Developing Regions: Vitamin A Deficiency, Anemia, Iodine Deficiency, and Child Underweight J Mason, J Rivers, C Helwig 2005

 

 

Lessons on Successful Micronutrient Programs  J Mason, M Deitchler, E Mathys, P Winichagoon, MA Tuazon 2004
--  Introduction
--  Part I: Program Initiation
--  Part II: Program Implementation
--  Part III: Program Impact
Socio-Political and Human Rights Considerations in Designing Livelihood, Health, and Nutrition Interventions.  John B. Mason, May 2003
Recent Trends in Malnutrition in Developing Countries. (ppt.1270 kb) John Mason, Tulane University, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine.  Jan. 2003.
Case-study series on successful micronutrient programs. IUNS Satellite Meeting on Progress in Public Nutrition.   August 2001, Vienna, Austria.  Preparation for publication in Food and Nutrition Bulletin, June '03.
Trends in Micronutrient Deficiencies and in Control Programs  (ppt.)U.N. Sub-Committee on Nutrition - Annual Session - Working Group on Micronutrients.  John B. Mason, 2002.
Iodine fortification is related to increased weight-for-age and birthweight in children in Asia.
   J.B. Mason, M. Deitchler, A. Gilman, K. Gillenwater, M. Shuaib, D. Hotchkiss, K. Mason, N. Mock and K. Sethuraman.  Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol.23, no.3. 2002.
The Micronutrient Report: Current Progress and Trends in the Control of Vitamin A, Iodine, and Iron Deficiencies
John B. Mason, Mashid Lotfi, Nita Dalmiya, Kavita Sethuraman and Megan Deitchler. The Micronutrient Initiative, Ottawa; 2001.
Report of Preparatory Workshop on Multi-Center Initiative on Capacity-Building and Evaluation Research For Micronutrient Deficiency Control Programs.  
John Mason, Megan Deitchler and Pattanee Winchagoon.  Nakhon Pathom (Bangkok), Thailand.  June 12 - 14, 2001.

Assessing Country Progress in Universal Salt Iodization Programs: Iodized Salt Program Assessment Tool (ISPAT) Robin Houston, Mahshid Lotfi, Rose Nathan, and Chandrakant Pandav, Editors.  The Micronutrient Initiative, Ottawa; 1999.


Controlling Micronutrient Deficiencies in Asia John B. Mason, Venkatesh Mannar and Nancy Mock.  Asian Development Review 1999, vol. 17 nos. 1,2: 66-95.
Prevention of Micronutrient Deficiencies: Tools for Policymakers and Public Health Workers  Christopher P. Howson, Eileen T. Kennedy, and Abraham Horwitz, Editors. Committee on Micronutrient Deficiencies, Institute of Medicine. National Academy Press, Washington, DC; 1998.
Indicators for Assessing Vitamin A Deficiency and their Application in Monitoring and Evaluating Intervention Programmes  WHO, Geneva; 1996.
Monitoring Universal Salt Iodization Programs  Kevin M. Sullivan, Robin Houston, Jonathan Gorstein, and Jenny Cervinskas, Editors.  MI/PAMM/ICCIDD, Ottawa; 1995.

Enriching Lives: Overcoming Vitamin and Mineral Malnutrition in Developing Countries
The World Bank, Washington, DC; 1994.

 

 

POLICIES, PROGRAMS, & ASSESSMENT METHODS :

Socio-Political and Human Rights Considerations in Designing Livelihood, Health, and Nutrition Interventions JBMason, 23 May 2003


At Least One-Third of Poor Countries’ Disease Burden Is Due To Malnutrition  John B. Mason, Philip  Musgrove, Jean-Pierre Habicht.  March 2003 
How Nutrition Improves - Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No. 15  John B. Mason, 16 May 2002.

Background papers, World Bank/UNICEF Nutrition Assessment. Preface (citation info).  Sept. 2002. 

Toward a Common Understanding of Malnutrition:  Assessing the Contributions of the UNICEF 

Framework.   David L. Pelletier

Health and Economic Consequences of MalnutritionBeatrice L. Rogers

How Nutrition Improves and What That Implies for Policy Decisions.  John Mason

Ending Hidden Hunger: The History of Micronutrient Deficiency Control.  Lindsay    Allen

Searching for a Home: The Institutionalization Issue in International Nutrition.         James Levinson


Lessons on Nutrition of Displaced People. (pdf) John B. Mason. 2002
Measuring Hunger and Malnutrition.  (Full Proceedings) John B. Mason.  ISS Presentation, Rome.  2002

Improving Child Nutrition in Asia
John B. Mason, Joseph Hunt, David Parker, and Urban Jonsson.  Food and Nutrition Bulletin,  vol.  22, no. 3. Sept. 2001.
MAKING A NATIONAL IMPACT ON MALNUTRITION IN THE PHILIPPINES: A Case Study of Government Policies and Programs, and the Role of UNICEF and the World Bank  R. Heaver and J. Mason 2000
Investing in Child Nutrition in Asia  John B. Mason, Joseph Hunt, David Parker and Urban Jonsson.  Asian Development Review 1999, vol. 17 nos. 1,2: 1-32.
Nutritional Surveillance JB Mason, JP Habicht, H Tabatabal, V Valverde. WHO, Geneva 1984
   Introduction
   Chapter 1: The role of nutritional surveillance
   Chapter 2: Initial Assessment
   Chapter 3: Planning, uses and organization
   Chapter 4: Planning, data characteristics, outputs, and sources
   Chapter 5: Programme management and evaluation
   Chapter 6: Timely warning and intervention programmes
 Methods for the Evaluation of the Impact of Food and Nutrition Programmes  David E. Sahn, Richard Lockwood, and Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Eds.   The United Nations University Press, Tokyo; 1984.
Practical Analysis of Nutritional Data (PANDA)

Created by Tulane University Department of International Health and Development, in cooperation with UNICEF.


Strategies for Reducing Child Malnutrition in Selected Asian Countries
The Regional Technical Assistance (RETA) Programme, sponsored by the Asian Development Bank and UNICEF.  Countries include: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam

ANTHROPOMETRY:
CDC Growth Charts
CDC EpiInfo statistical software

NUTRITION, DROUGHT, & HIV IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:             (in collaboration w/ Unicef) 
Nutrition Information Projects - Southern Africa

NIPSA I 

Aids, Drought, and Child Malnutrition in Southern Africa I: 2005

UNICEF Publication: 2003

NIPSA II

Aids, Drought and Child Malnutrition in Southern Africa II:   2004 (Summary of Findings) (Text) (Figures & Tables)
   
Nutrition Information Project - Horn of Africa

NIPHORN

Part A: Nip Horn Report (Text) (Figures & Tables) 2006
Part B: Analysis of Small-Scale Survey Data (annex) 2006

IRAQ:
OFFP Final Report
Iraq Presentation (ppt)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Coronary Heart Disease and Diabetes Originate in the Womb 
Address to the World Bank, Washington.  Barker, DJP. 1999.
Understanding Nutrition Data and the Causes of Malnutrition in Kenya.  FEWS NET 2006
Jilib Riverine Nutrition Assessment, Middle Juba Region, Somalia.  FSAU et al, 2006
Nutrition Survey Report, IDP Camps, Gulu District, Northern Uganda.  Action Against Hunger, 2006
Food Security and Nutrition, Quarterly Brief, Somalia.  FSAU, 2006
Nutrition Survey Guidelines for Somalia, 2006
Namibia Sentinel Sites Nutrition Surveillance [Training Manual & Resources in .RAR format] [training manual and resources in .ZIP format]