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To be able to assess food and nutrition security, good tools are needed. For
the youngest children, breastmilk is the most important source for covering
nutrition requirement. In this report the manner in which the economic value
of the breastmilk can be calculated is demonstrated. A common form for assessing
the nutritional situation is the comparison of the height and the weight of
children with their age. However, mistakes made estimating age can lead to incorrect
evaluations of nutritional status. In addition, simple indicators for food security
have been developed in this report. The number of food items and the number
of food groups are shown to give fairly good indication of the nutritional adequacy
of the diet and were also related to the nutritional status of the children
Contents
Acknowledgement
List of abbreviations
1 About the study
2 Aims of the study
3 Background
3.1 Description of the area
3.2 Defining food and nutrition security
4 Methods
4.1 Qualitative study
4.2 Cross-sectional surveys
4.3 Anthropometry
4.4 Assessing quantity and economic value of human milk
4.5 Dietary assessment
4.6 Statistical analysis
5 Main results
5.1 Effect of age-estimation on age-based indicators of anthropometry
5.2 Assessing quantity and economic value of human milk
5.3 Assessing nutritional quality of foods
5.4 Identifying simple indicators of food intake
6 General discussion
6.1 Tools for assessing nutrition security
6.2 Methodological considerations
7 Overall summary and conclusion
Reference List
Appendix 1 Examples of how to fill in the matrix in the qualitative study
Appendix 2 Questionnaire to the women that prepared the food the previous day
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Paper II
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Paper III
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Paper IV
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Paper V
Hatløy A, Hallund J, Diarra MM and Oshaug A (1999). Food variety, socio-economic
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