|
|
|
|
|
| Kumar Range, Shubh K.; Naved, Ruchira Tabassum; Bhattarai, Saroj. |
| Children are the most vulnerable among the malnourished population of Bangladesh. Child and maternal care practices are now being considered as important complements to increasing household income or targeted food interventions to address child growth needs. In Bangladesh, as elsewhere, many children, even in poor households, do well nutritionally, whereas others do not. This study attempts to identify characteristics of the existing child and the maternal care environment that could be used as a basis for designing policies and programs to improve the nutritional status of children. For the present study, all children between 6-18 months of age were selected from a nutrition survey of a cross section of 741 households conducted by the IFPRI Bangladesh... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Health; Child Care; Human Growth; Children; Nutritional Status; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97297 |
| |
|
|
| Engle, Patrice L.; Menon, Purnima; Haddad, Lawrence James. |
| The concept of "care" as an analytical construct is still new to many outside the nutrition field. Moreover, for those in the field, care is problematic from the measurement point of view. Our hope is that this paper provides an effective introduction to care for the former group, and a useful summary for the latter group of attempts to develop care indicators. Care is the provision in the household and the community of time, attention and support to meet the physical, mental, and social needs of the growing child and other household members. The significance of care has been best articulated in the UNICEF framework. This paper extends the model presented by UNICEF by defining resources for care and specific care behaviors, and presenting an argument for... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Child Care; Child Feeding; Food Availability; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97306 |
| |
|
|
|
