Combining Home Garden, Poultry, and Nutrition Education Program Targeted to Families With Young Children Improved Anemia Among Children and Anemia and Underweight Among Nonpregnant Women in Nepal

Osei, Akoto; Pandey, Pooja; Nielsen, Jennifer; M. Pries, Alissa; Spiro, David; Davis, Dale; J. Quinn, Victoria; Haselow, Nancy

doi:10.1177/0379572116676427

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Combining Home Garden, Poultry, and Nutrition Education Program Targeted to Families With Young Children Improved Anemia Among Children and Anemia and Underweight Among Nonpregnant Women in Nepal

Published in Food and Nutrition Bulletin • Nov 11, 2016

Authors:

Akoto Osei

Pooja Pandey

Jennifer Nielsen

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The impact of food-based interventions on child and maternal anthropometry and anemia has not been adequately studied. OBJECTIVE: This study tested the effect of an enhanced homestead food production (EHFP) program consisting of home garden, poultry raising, and nutrition education imple...

Subject

Underweight

Medicine

Anemia

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