Category: Nutrition surveys
Tajikistan is the most land locked country in the world. The country covers 143,100 km2, an area approximately equivalent to the size of Greece.
Issue 14, November 2001 (page 19)
Summary of research.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 9)
This article highlights the potential benefit, resource needs and constraints of applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) analysis to a conventional nutritional survey dataset in a developing country or an emergency context.
Issue 26, November 2005 (page 30)
Summary of published research.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 7)
Summary of published research.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 16)
This article is a summary of a report commissioned by the international humanitarian organisation, World Vision, to investigate the impact of social and cultural factors on childhood malnutrition amongst the Dinka of Tonj South County, Warrap State, Southern Sudan.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 7)
An Appeal for a Development Programme by MSF Spain in Mandera District, Kenya.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 12)
Perinatal mortality and birth-weight reflect the quality of the intrauterine environment and complications of birth.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 16)
Summary of analysis.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 14)
This article discusses the problem of accurately estimating the target population for the planning of emergency nutrition programmes and presents a tool developed by Save the Children UK aimed at improving the process.
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 18)
Summary of Evaluation.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 20)
The 2001 harvest in Malawi was particularly poor and it was recognised by June/July that there would be a substantial maize deficit. Furthermore the grain reserve had been sold off, and the money from this reserve was ‘missing’.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 20)
MSF implemented a nutrition rehabilitation programme in Marsabit District between April and November 1997, in response to the drought that affected north eastern Kenya in 1996.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 27)
Summary of research.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 9)
This article describes the experiences of a Swiss-based NGO, Tdh Fondation, on maternal and child nutrition programming in Bangladesh, and their observations around the impact of the food price crisis.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 28)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 5)
This article shares the challenges of conducting a survey of the health, nutrition and livelihood conditions of Iraqi Refugees living amongst the local population in the North East of Syria.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 26)
Published paper.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 6)
Summary of review.
Issue 38, April 2010 (page 16)
Guidelines on nutritional survey methodologies currently stipulate that children between 6 to 59 months should be surveyed.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 15)
Field practitioners in humanitarian settings often face challenges analysing and interpreting the results of nutrition surveys.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 38)
The International Nutrition Foundation (INF), in collaboration with the United Nations University (UNU) with funding from the Micronutrient Initiative (MI) will establish the Iron Deficiency Project Advisory Service (IDPAS).
Issue 12, April 2001 (page 10)
Summary of evaluations.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 23)
This new 2006 WHO Growth standards: What will they mean for emergency nutrition programmes?.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 16)
Acción contra el Hambre España (ACFE) has been working in Gao and Kidal, two regions in northern Mali, since 1996.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 15)
Unpublished paper.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 8)
Summary of research.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 7)
This article describes a new survey method for assessing acute malnutrition in nomadic pastoralist populations, including a case study from Mali.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 31)
This article gives an overview of the coverage estimation method developed for the Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) Research Programme in Malawi.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 37)
Children living in Large Scale Commercial Farms in Zimbabwe, most of which are owned by white farmers, have higher rates of undernutrition than children living in communal areas.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 15)
Save the Children Fund (SCF UK) has been working in Bangladesh since the Bhola cyclone of 1970.
Issue 6, February 1999 (page 12)
This article presents a pilot study1 conducted in Somaliland by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation Food Security Analysis Unit, (FAO/FSAU). It uses the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) method to assess the nutritional situation and compares the results to a 30x30 cluster survey conducted simultaneously in the same sample population.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 27)
Congratulations to Mark Myatt, Anna Taylor, and W. Courtland Robinson for bringing into the light of rational scientific discourse the subject of estimating mortality rates using crosssectional surveys.
Issue 17, November 2002 (page 16)
Summary of published research.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 10)
Kohistan is one of the most remote districts of Faryab Province in Afghanistan. It is in the south of the province bordering Badghis and Ghor provinces and is an eight-hour car journey from the provincial capital of Maimana to the district capital Bandar.
Issue 13, August 2001 (page 14)
On October 8, 2005 a strong earthquake - said to be the most powerful in the region in 500 years - hit the northeastern part of Pakistan. The result was massive destruction and catastrophic mortality, primarily in the upper Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and in Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK).
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 26)
Published paper.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 10)
In children the three most commonly used anthropometric indices are weight for height, height for age and weight for age.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 6)
The May 2010 issue of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CE-DAT) publication, CE-DAT Scene1 includes a summary of the 2009 trends in malnutrition and mortality. These make interesting reading.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 30)
Summary of published report.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 6)
Summary of published research.
Issue 38, April 2010 (page 15)