November 2021
Issue 66 / English
Editorials
- Editorial (page 3)
Field Articles
- Experiences from implementation of a school-based nutrition programme in Wakiso District, Central Uganda. (page 16)
- Promoting youth leadership on nutrition through junior parliamentarians and junior council engagement in Zimbabwe (page 20)
- Improving adolescents’ food choices: Learnings from the Bhalo Khabo Bhalo Thakbo (“Eat Well, Live Well”) campaign in Bangladesh (page 23)
- Adolescent Girl Power Groups in Bangladesh: Placing gender equality at the centre of nutrition interventions (page 26)
- An integrated multi-sector approach to improve the nutritional status among school-age children and adolescents in Malawi (page 30)
- Preventing teen pregnancies and supporting pregnant teenagers in Ecuador (page 33)
- “I’m courageous”: a social entrepreneurship programme promoting a healthy diet in young Indonesian people (page 36)
- Weekly iron and folic acid supplementation and nutrition education for adolescent girls in Africa and Asia (page 40)
- ‘Vida Saludable’: Healthy living is on the school curriculum in Mexico (page 44)
- Improving the nutritional well-being of school-age children through the Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative (NFSI) in the State of Palestine (page 47)
- Use of media to engage school-age children and adolescents to improve their nutrition and health (page 51)
- Vida Saludable: integración de los hábitos saludables en el plan de estudios en México (page 100)
Research
- Determinants of adolescent nutritional status and practices in Burkina Faso: A pooled secondary analysis (page 68)
- Diet and nutrition status among school-age children and adolescents in Tanzania (page 72)
- Risk of nutritional deficiencies increases during female adolescence – a comparison of the cost of a nutritious diet across sex and age (page 76)
Special section
- Case Study 1: Assessing effectiveness of an interactive magazine aimed at influencing nutrition behaviours among school-attending adolescents in Timor-Leste (page 53)
- Case Study 2: Pacific Kids Food Revolution (PKFR): The innovative way teenagers are leading the way in the Pacific Islands to improve nutrition (page 54)
- Case Study 3: Improving eating habits in India: The Eat Right School programme (page 55)
- Case Study 4: Digital solutions developed by youth to drive social behaviour change for nutrition in Zimbabwe (page 56)
News & Views
- Conducting formative research on adolescent nutrition: key considerations (page 4)
- What’s new for adolescent nutrition in the DHS Program (page 4)
- Global launch: ‘Making Every School a Health Promoting School’ initiative (page 5)
- Research consortium for school health and nutrition: Launch (page 5)
- Adolescent Nutrition and Anaemia Course (page 6)
- The “Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank”: Practical resources for improving adolescent nutrition programmes (page 6)
- Expanding youth engagement in health research: The Lancet Youth Advisory Panel (page 7)
- MMS on Essential Medicine List (page 7)
- Systems approach to prevent all forms of malnutrition among children 5-19 years (page 8)
- Non-nutrition interventions to prevent anaemia in school-age children and adolescents (page 10)
- The importance of school feeding programmes to support the nutrition of school-age children, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic (page 12)
- 25 years of Field Exchange: has it made a difference? (page 15)
Research snapshots
- COVID-19 pandemic impacts on adolescents’ lives in sub-Saharan Africa (page 57)
- Dietary intake and practices of adolescent girls in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review (page 57)
- Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding programme (page 58)
- The triple burden of malnutrition among adolescents in Indonesia (page 58)
- Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Adolescent Nutrition (page 59)
- Food systems for children and adolescents (page 59)
- Determinates of dietary intake among adolescents in Bangladesh (page 60)
- Family influences on practices of pregnant adolescents in Bangladesh (page 60)
Research summaries
- TALENT Collaboration: Exploring adolescent diet and physical activity in India and sub-Saharan Africa. (page 61)
- Capturing nutrition data for school-age children and adolescents (page 63)
- Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status in school-aged children and adolescents (page 64)
- Current evidence on anaemia and micronutrient supplementation strategies in school-age children and adolescents (page 66)
Report summaries
- Early is best but it is not always too late. Young Lives evidence on nutrition and growth in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (page 81)
- Growth through Nutrition: The Adolescent Nutrition SBCC Program in Ethiopia (page 82)
- Fix my food: children’s views on transforming food systems (page 83)
- Investing in the now and the future: Why governments should commit to adolescent health and nutrition (page 84)
- Scoping review on school food and nutrition policies (page 84)
- When Are We Going to Teach Health? (page 85)
- Nutrition and health challenges for Rohingya and Bangladeshi adolescents and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic (page 86)
- New UNICEF resource: Programming Guidance for Parenting of Adolescents (page 87)
- UNICEF programming guidance: Nutrition in middle childhood and adolescence (page 87)
- People-driven SBC in Practice Combating Stunting in Indonesia (page 88)
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- Implementing the Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative in Palestine
- Innovative examples of media use to engage youth on nutrition
- Child and adolescent nutrition status in Tanzania
- Determinants of nutrition status in Burkina Faso
- Preventing teen pregnancies to support nutrition in Ecuador
- Covid-19: The value of school feeding programmes
- Systems approach to prevent malnutrition among all children