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EAPRO Training for Improved Practice: Public Health and Nutrition in Emergencies Practical training package for 10 days designed for UNICEF staff covering and public health and nutrition aspects of emergencies from assessment to design and monitoring programmes. 1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Policies, Practices and Decision Making 3. Basic Concepts 4. Rapid Assessments in Emergencies 5. Survey Methodology 6. Survey... Published in 2003, by |
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Economic Growth, Equity and Nutritional Improvement in Indonesia A country case study supported by UNICEF for the XV congress of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, September 26 to October 1, 1993, Adelaide. Published in 1992, by |
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Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis report The TEC's Synthesis Report represents the culmination of over a year's work by TEC member agencies. It examines the successes and failures as well as the constraints within which the response occurred between the first 8 and 11 months of the response. It does this by distilling the findings and learning from over 140 additional reports, including many TEC... Published in 2006, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 05 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2005, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 06 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2005, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 08 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2006, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 09 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2006, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 02 - Delivery of oral doses of vitamin A deficiency and nutritional blindness: A state-of-the-art review The ACC/SCN State-of-the-Art Series aims to provide authoritative information to help policy-making and implementation of programmes to improve nutrition in the world. This document concerns prevention of vitamin A deficiency, which is the objective of a Ten-Year UN Programme, launched in 1985. It is a coordinated effort between UN and national governments,... Published in 1987, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 03 - The Prevention and Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders This paper is the third in the ACC/SCN's State-of-the-Art series. Like the two previous papers, on nutrition education and control of vitamin A deficiency, it provides information to assist decisions on policies and programmes to prevent widespread nutritional problems. Iodine deficiency is one of these, affecting some 200 million people. Yet science and... Published in 1988, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 04 - Women's Role in Food Chain Activities and the Implications for Nutrition We hope that the wide-ranging information herein will further the crucially important cause of women, specifically in relation to nutrition, in several ways. First, women's central role in providing for adequate nutrition - of families, communities, and indeed nations - in being described here in detail should help to give increased prominence to the need... Published in 1989, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 05 - Malnutrition and Infection - A review The combination of malnutrition and infection causes most of the preventable deaths in developing countries, certainly among young children. Malnutrition increases the risk and worsens the course of infectious disease; and infection leads to malnutrition. Thus we have used the expression “malnutrition-infection complex”. Good nutrition undoubtedly is a... Published in 1989, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 09 - Controlling Iron Deficiency Iron deficiency anaemia is the most common nutritional disorder in the world, affecting particularly pregnant and lactating women and pre-school children. Supplementation with ferrous sulphate tablets (often including folic acid) is efficacious but problems exist with effectiveness of large scale programmes in developing countries. Nonetheless, improvement... Published in 1991, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 10 - Nutrition-relevant Actions 'Nutrition' has been used in the past to describe both an input (consumption of nutrients) as well as a set of outcomes. Some of the confusion about the scope of actions to improve nutrition may be cleared up by distinguishing causality and effect. Thus, if nutrition is to be seen as an input, then the focus will be primarily on food. If it is to be viewed... Published in 1991, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 13 - Effectiveness of Vitamin A Supplementation in the Control of Young Child Morbidity and Mortality in Developing Countries This report presents conclusive evidence that improving the vitamin A status of young children reduced mortality rates by about 23%. The evidence relates to population groups in which there was evidence that vitamin A deficiency was sufficiently prevalent and sufficiently severe to give rise to at least a low prevalence of clinical signs of deficiency. Published in 1993, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 14 - Controlling Vitamin A Deficiency With the recent publication of "Effectiveness of Vitamin A Supplementation in the Control of Young Child Morbidity and Mortality in Developing Countries" as ACC/SCN Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No. 13, we now know more about the type and degree of positive benefits of raising vitamin A status among deprived populations. After the findings of the... Published in 1994, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 15 - How Nutrition Improves Viewing improved nutrition as an outcome of development processes expands the area of concern for policy-makers and practitioners who seek to combat malnutrition. These processes operate at different levels in society, from (he individual through to the whole arena of governmental policy and indeed international relationships. The SCN, in deciding on... Published in 1996, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 28 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty eighth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly... Published in 1999, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 29 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty ninth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 1999, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 30 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the thirtieth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 2000, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 31 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the thirty-first of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 2000, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 32 and 33 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about nutrition, health, and survival in refugee and displaced... Published in 2001, by |
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SCN News No 16 - Nutrition of the School-age Child This feature brings together a variety of articles, and reports of two new publications on the health and nutrition of school-age children. The papers range in content from the assessment of nutritional status in school-age children, to examples of school-based nutrition and feeding programmes in different countries. The nutritional concerns of school... Published in 1998, by |
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SCN News No 18 - Adequate Food: a Human Right This SCN News presents an overview of the symposium "The Substance and Politics of a Human Rights Approach to Food and Nutrition Policies and Programmes" which was held at the SCN's 26th Session in Geneva, Switzerland in April 1999. Published in 1999, by |
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SCN News No 20 - Nutrition and Agriculture This issue of SCN News deals with nutrition and agriculture. Published in 2000, by |
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SCN News No 27 – Meeting the Challenge to Improve Complementary Feeding This issue of SCN News focuses on the critical period of complementary feeding, and its importance to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Dr Chessa Lutter, from the Pan American Health Organization, has compiled a series of articles which depicts the challenges and possibilities to improving complementary feeding for young children. Published in 2003, by |
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SCN News No 31 – Adolescence: a Pivotal Stage in the Lifecycle This issue of SCN News features articles addressing a population that receives little attention: adolescents. UNFPA’s State of World Population (2005) estimates that there are 1.2 billion adolescents between 10-19 years of age today. Although not specifically mentioned in the Millennium Development Goals, adolescents are the future adults who will continue... Published in 2005, by |
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Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Volume II: Country Trends Methods and Statistics Country-level data are intended to illustrate and promote understanding of observed trends in nutrition. They also, importantly, show the variety of situations, smoothed out in the regional data, from rapid improvement to stagnation or deterioration. As discussed in the text, the choice of countries was biased towards those with large populations. This means... Published in 1993, by |
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Update on the Nutrition Situation - Recent Trends in Nutrition in 33 Countries The report aims to describe recent trends in nutrition and certain potential determining factors, country-by-country. The approach is unavoidably ad hoc, due to the variable availability of data. Selected indicators of likely determinants of year-to-year change are emphasized, especially related to economic stress. Such factors are thought to be having... Published in 1989, by |