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Nutrition and malnutrition

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This presentation will discuss the challenges faced in improving the nutrition of women and children in developing countries. Examples of succesful interventions which have addressed nutritional disorders will be discussed.
Session Objectives: Discuss the impact of malnutition on communities Explain the link between politics and nutritional status of communities .
Moderator:
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH

2:30pm
A community-based approach for improving child nutrition: Experiences from a Positive Deviance/Hearth program in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia
Debora Freitas Lopez, MS and Somchit Boungnasiri
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2:43pm
Physical and socioeconomic environments are associated with concurrent malnutrition in neighborhoods, households and individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew Jones, PhD and Yubraj Acharya
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2:56pm
Overweight and obesity in early pregnancy are associated with poorer maternal iron status and inhibited placental iron transfer
Andrew Jones, PhD and Besty Lozoff, MD
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3:09pm
Wealth = Health? Prevalence and predictive indicators of food insecurity in Sidama and Wolayta zones of Southern Ethiopia
Heidi Busse, MPH, Tobias Lunt, Girma Tefera, MD and Mariama Fofanah, RN, MPH
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3:22pm
Anthropometric estimation of undernutrition among rural adolescents in Tanzania: A comparison of three international growth references
Lorraine Cordeiro, MPH, PhD and Kristina Brayman, MPH

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Aging & Public Health, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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