Cowpeas in Northern Ghana and the factors that predict caregivers' intention to give them to schoolchildren.

Autor: Abdul-Razak Abizari, Nerisa Pilime, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Inge D Brouwer

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 8, p e72087 (2013)

Cowpeas are important staple legumes among the rural poor in northern Ghana. Our objectives were to assess the iron and zinc content of cowpea landraces and identify factors that predict the intention of mothers/caregivers to give cowpeas to their sc

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Challenges and responses to infant and young child feeding in rural Rwanda: A qualitative study

Autor: Laura Bouwman, Eric Matsiko, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Jeanine Ahishakiye, Inge D. Brouwer, Maria Koelen

Publikováno v: Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 38 (2019) 1
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 38(1)
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol 38, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2019)
Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition

BackgroundDespite different interventions to improve child nutrition conditions, chronic malnutrition is still a public health concern in Rwanda, with a high stunting prevalence of 38% among under 5-year-olds children. In Rwanda, only 18% of children

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s41043-019-0207-z

Identifying interventions to help rural Kenyan mothers cope with food insecurity: results of a focused ethnographic study

Autor: Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Gretel H. Pelto

Publikováno v: Maternal & Child Nutrition. 11:21-38

An ethnographic study was conducted in two areas in southern and western Kenya to identify potential interventions to improve the quality, availability and affordability of foods consumed by infants and young children. A cultural-ecological model of

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https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12244

The focused ethnographic study ‘assessing the behavioral and local market environment for improving the diets of infants and young children 6 to 23 months old’ and its use in three countries

Autor: Dominic Schofield, Jonathan Siekmann, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Gretel H. Pelto

Publikováno v: Maternal & Child Nutrition. 9:35-46

The concept of a focused ethnographic study (FES) emerged as a new methodology to answer specific sets of questions that are required by agencies policymakers programme planners or by project implementation teams in order to make decisions about futu

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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00451.x

Population-based study of diabetic mellitus prevalence and its associated factors in adult Ghanaians in the greater Accra region

Autor: Seth M. Armah, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Frederick Vuvor, Matilda Steiner-Asiedu

Publikováno v: International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries. 31:149-153

The increasing prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) has become an issue of global concern. Diabetes affects over 100 million people the world over. It has been observed in Ghana that diet-related diseases such as DM and hypertension are on the increa

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s13410-011-0035-1