Introduction: Present children are the investments of community in the future. Preparing children health which leads to the stability of community health, provided to accurate implementation of educational and health programs in the community and especially in mothers. So it is necessary to determine the relationship between parents' literacy with growth rate in children.   Materials and Method...

introduction: present children are the investments of community in the future. preparing children health which leads to the stability of community health, provided to accurate implementation of educational and health programs in the community and especially in mothers. so it is necessary to determine the relationship between parents' literacy with growth rate in children.   materials and m...

BACKGROUND As a conservation tool, supplementary feeding programs may be directed to specific individuals or sectors of the target population whose productivity or survival is thought to be limited by food scarcity. However, the use of supplemental food by different sex and age classes has received little attention. We studied individual variation in the access of the endangered Iberian lynx (L...

Motivated by the lack of randomized controlled trials with an intervention-free control arm in the area of child undernutrition, we fit a trivariate model of weight-for-age z score (WAZ), height-for-age z score (HAZ) and diarrhea status to data from an observational study of supplementary feeding (100 kCal/day for children with WAZ [Formula: see text]) in 17 Guatemalan communities. Incorporatin...

BACKGROUND In Bangladesh, as in other developing countries, protein-energy malnutrition is mostprevalent among children during weaning. After weaning, children are often fed cereal-based diluted low-calorie porridge, resulting in growth-faltering. OBJECTIVE To assess the effect on food intake of adding amylase-rich flour (ARF) from germinated wheat to supplementary food among children in nine...

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1997) 21(2): 141-152 ©New Zealand Ecological Society spp.), and rats (Rattus spp.), may also be contributing to the decline of kaka by reducing the birds’ productivity (Beggs and Wilson, 1991). A significant competitive interaction with possums is suggested by the fact that kaka remain common in the South Island only where possum densities are relatively low (O’D...

BACKGROUND Food aid programs are strategies that aim to improve nutritional status and to tackle food insecurity. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a National Food Supplementary Program for Children on households' food security. METHODS The study sample included 359 mothers of children aged 6-72 months under the coverage of the program in two provinces of Iran. Demographic and socioe...

Non-native species are frequently considered to influence urban assemblages. The grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensis is one such species that is widespread in the UK and is starting to spread across Europe; it predates birds' nests and can compete with birds for supplementary food. Using distance sampling across the urbanisation intensity gradient in Sheffield (UK) we test whether urban grey squ...