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What is the real nutritional status of pregnant women in India?

r.i.c.e., on June 11th, 2015

Topics: Child health, Maternal health

India has one of the highest rates of childhood malnutrition worldwide, and poor maternal health and nutrition are major contributors to the problem. There is no national monitoring system in place to regularly monitor women’s health, thus there is no...Read More..

Can food alone resolve “malnutrition”?: Stunting, open defecation, and the urgency a of policy response

r.i.c.e., on February 15th, 2014

Topics: Child health, Sanitation

Evidence in the medical and epidemiological literature has documented that germs in feces can stunt children’s growth. This is in part due to diarrhea, and possibly in part due to enteropathy (Humphrey, 2009): chronic changes in the lining of the...Read More..

Sanitation and Stunting Research Brief

r.i.c.e., on February 1st, 2013

Topics: Child health, Sanitation

This brief is primarily based on a research paper by Dean Spears: “The Nutritional Value of Toilets: How much international variation in child height can sanitation explain?” The full paper, with the details of all computations and conclusions, is available...Read More..

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