Peer counseling to improve feeding practices and reduce malnutrition in children 0-2 years in Bangladesh

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/633229

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bangladesh faces high levels of inappropriate infant feeding leading to young child malnutrition. Effective programs are urgently needed to help reduce this burden of malnutrition. The study in poor urban communities in Dhaka City, Bangladesh will examine the impact of local women educating mothers about appropriate infant feeding. We will assess the impact of these programs on feeding practices and the growth of the infants.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $951,929.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Health Promotion

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

behavioural intervention | child health | child nutrition and growth | community child health | counselling-feeding and nutrition-malnutrition | diarrhoeal disease-health education and promotion | epidemiology | health counselling-early childhood | health education | infant feeding

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