Saving Lives: Evidence from a Conditional Food Supplementation Program

Meller, Marian; Litschig, Stephan

doi:10.1353/jhr.2014.0035

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“…26 of these (16 RCTs and 10 CBAs) were used in meta-analyses. With the exception of Meller 40 , all included studies were found in published data. Twenty-six studies had some data that could be included in meta-analyses.…”

Section: Results Of Literature Search and Description Of Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Supplementary feeding for improving the health of disadvantaged infants and young children

Kristjansson¹,

Liberato²,

Greenhalgh³

et al. 2016

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“…Using a regression discontinuity design, Meller and his colleagues 40 found a significant reduction in child mortality (from 2.5% to 1% or 1.5%) during the eight months of exposure to Ecuador's PANN program of supplementary feeding and health care checks. This represents a 40 to 60% decrease in mortality.…”

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Supplementary feeding for improving the health of disadvantaged infants and young children

Kristjansson¹,

Liberato²,

Greenhalgh³

et al. 2016

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“…Having compared the consequences of imposing economic sanctions and the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals, one can view sanctions as a counterbalance to the mechanism of sustainable development (Table 6). (Shah, 2017, Meller and Litschig, 2014, Akbulut-Yuksel, 2014, Guthmuller, Jusot, and Wittwer, 2014 3 Providing a healthy lifestyle and promoting well-being for all at any age The threat to the well-being of the population (the sanctions imposed on Iraq and Haiti were implemented without violent intervention) (Kokoshin, 2005) 10 Reducing inequalities within and between countries…”

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Problems of corporate economics and sustainable development in the context of the sanction world order: Living standards and live quality

Zhulega¹,

Gagulina²,

Samoylov³

et al. 2019

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It is becoming more difficult for the economy to enter the predicted development trends under conditions of the global systemic crisis, which has become a source of serious problems for countries that are deeply integrated into the world economy. The use of wellknown decision-making mechanisms for a wide range of problems, such as unsustainable consumption and production patterns, poverty and hunger, gender inequality, inequalities between countries and within countries, ecosystem disruption and a number of other equally important problems deserve additional reflection and analysis. In the context of the issues covered in the article, it is especially relevant to analyse the simultaneous impact on the economy of sustainable development mechanisms, based primarily on the objectives of declarative character and practice-oriented economic sanctions. The interrelation of diametrically opposed instruments of global influence that regulate the "scale" of the modern world economy in an attempt to improve its stability is described in the article. Economic sanctions and instruments of sustainable development, methods of corporate management, direct the modern international institutional mechanism to ensure the stability of economic development and sustainable economic growth. In this regard, the application of both sanctions and mechanisms for sustainable development is getting more and more justified. The authors conducted a systematic analysis of corporate economics and principles of sustainable development against the impact of sanctions; identified the problems of sustainable development caused by the introduction of sanctions that make it difficult to achieve the sustainable development goals in the longer term. Possible ways to solve the identified problems are suggested. We studied the "sanctionsliving standard, life quality" relation for the BRICS countries in the period of sanctions against Russia and China. We proposed possible solutions for the problems identified.

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“…Four studies involved giving psychosocial stimulation (for example, weekly play sessions with a community health aide), [35][36][37][38] four programmes provided other health interventions (such as a community-wide sanitation programme or visits from health workers) and two of these also provided maternal education. 28,39,40 Two programmes provided nutritional education.…”

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“…Looking at deaths, Meller and colleagues 39 found that a supplementary feeding programme in Ecuador reduced the rate of deaths from 2.5% to 1-1.5%; a 40-60% decrease in the number of deaths. This promising result, however, was not observed in a study in Niger, where there was no difference in deaths between children who received supplementary food and those who did not.…”

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Supplementary feeding for improving the health of disadvantaged infants and children: what works and why?

Kristjansson¹,

Liberato²,

Greenhalgh³

et al. 2016

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About 3ieThe International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is an international grant-making NGO promoting evidence-informed development policies and programmes. We are the global leader in funding and producing high-quality evidence of what works, how, why and at what cost. We believe that better and policy-relevant evidence will help make development more effective and improve people's lives. 3ie systematic reviews 3ie-supported systematic reviews examine available high-quality evidence on the effects of social and economic development interventions in low-and middle-income countries. They follow scientifically recognised review methods and are quality assured according to internationally accepted standards. 3ie publishes the full reviews online as they have been accepted from authors in partial fulfilment of their grants. 3ie also publishes summaries and/or briefs based on the full reviews that are designed for use by policymakers and programme managers. Funding for the systematic review and summary report was provided by 3ie's donors and members that provide institutional support. A complete listing is provided on the 3ie website. About this summary AcknowledgementsWe gratefully acknowledge funding from 3ie, which enabled us to carry out the review. We also wish to thank Ruth Pitt for her valuable editorial contributions in finalising the summary report and Hugh Waddington for technical support throughout the review process.We greatly appreciate the work of research assistants Kaitlyn Merritt and Micere Thuku.We also appreciate the responsiveness of several study authors to our requests for additional information, including Madalin Husaini, Chessa Lutter, Jean Rivera and Susan Walker.ii SummaryThis report -a summary of a systematic review and a realist review -examines the evidence on whether supplementary feeding, a strategy to provide additional food to disadvantaged children, can improve the health of children between three months and five years of age. It covers both physical health (including weight, height and illness) and psychosocial health (including mental development, attention, language and memory).Children who survive early and persistent undernutrition may experience lifelong consequences: undernutrition may cause permanent changes in physiology and metabolism, and has been increasingly linked to chronic diseases including obesity, hypertension, diabetes, stroke and coronary heart disease. These long-term consequences of undernutrition highlight the need for governments, funding agencies and non-governmental organisations to intervene early in childhood.Supplementary feeding: a strategy to improve the health of disadvantaged children ObjectivesSupplementary feeding programmes for children vary greatly, but the long-term goals generally include improved survival, improved growth and health, and normal cognitive and behavioural development. Some supplementary feeding programmes have the intermediate goal of curing (or at least ameliorating) existing undernutrition, while others aim to prev...

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Saving Lives: Evidence from a Conditional Food Supplementation Program

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

Supplementary feeding for improving the health of disadvantaged infants and young children

Supplementary feeding for improving the health of disadvantaged infants and young children

Problems of corporate economics and sustainable development in the context of the sanction world order: Living standards and live quality

Supplementary feeding for improving the health of disadvantaged infants and children: what works and why?

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