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Vitamin preschool children

The alternatives to an increased income enabling people to purchase more vitamin A-containing foods have been programs (a) to provide the most highly vulnerable preschool child population with a massive dose of vitamin A peri-... [Pg.368]

In the last two decades, over forty clinical trials have examined the use of vitamin A as an intervention to reduce the morbidity and mortality from infectious disease. Large community-based controlled clinical trials have provided persuasive scientific evidence that preschool child morbidity and mortality can be lowered by improving vitamin A status. The impact of vitamin A supplementation upon case fatality rates in measles has been impressive. The World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the International Vitamin A Consultative Group now recommend the use of vitamin A supplementation as a means of improving child survival in developing countries where vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem and for acute comphcated measles. These measures are expected to save thousands of children s lives in developing countries. [Pg.104]

Agarwal DK, Pandey CM, Agarwal KN (1995) Vitamin A administration and preschool child mortality. Nutr Res 15 669-680... [Pg.106]

West KP Jr, Pokhrel RP, Katz J, LeClerq SC, Kha SK, Shrestha SR, Pradhan EK, Tielsch JM, Pandey MR, Sommer A (1991) Efficacy of vitamin A in reducing preschool child mortality in Nepal. Lancet 338 67-71... [Pg.106]

It is well established that vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a public health problem in more than ioo countries, especially in Africa and Southeast Asia, hitting hardest young children and pregnant women. Worldwide, over 124 million children are estimated to be vitamin A deficient. Many of these children go blind or become ill from diarrhea, and nearly eight million preschool age children die each year as the result of this deficiency. The World Health Organization estimates that improved vitamin A nutritional status could prevent the deaths of 1.3—2.5 million late-infancy and preschool age children each year (Humphrey et al. 1992). The heartache of losing a child to a preventable disease is not one commonly encountered in the developed world. [Pg.94]


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