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| Roger ShrimptonSummaryAffiliation: University College London Country: UK Publications
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Can supplements help meet the micronutrient needs of the developing world?Roger Shrimpton
Helen Keller International and Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WCIN 1EH, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 61:223-9. 2002..Successful completion of rigorous efficacy trials will be critical for creating the political support needed to achieve universal coverage...
Trends in low birthweight among the Bhutanese refugee population in NepalRoger Shrimpton
Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Food Nutr Bull 30:S197-206. 2009..Although much is known about risk factors for low birthweight, an important cause of neonatal death, little is known about how to reduce or prevent low birthweight...
Zinc deficiency: what are the most appropriate interventions?Roger Shrimpton
Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH
BMJ 330:347-9. 2005
Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy in developing-country settings: policy and program implications of the results of a meta-analysisRoger Shrimpton
Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Food Nutr Bull 30:S556-73. 2009..An independent Systematic Review Team performed a meta-analysis of 12 randomized, controlled trials comparing multiple micronutrients with daily iron-folic acid supplementation during pregnancy...
Evidence v. rights-based decision making for nutritionRoger Shrimpton
Helen Keller International and Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 62:553-62. 2003..What role the Nutrition Society might play in the realisation of these rights, including the creation of a robust evidence base for nutrition action, is further discussed...
Preventing low birthweight and reduction of child mortalityRoger Shrimpton
Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 97:39-42. 2003....
The International Research on Infant Supplementation study: implications for programs and further researchLindsay Allen
University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA
J Nutr 135:666S-669S. 2005
Nutrition and poverty reduction: lessons on policy change from the World Bank/UNICEF nutrition assessmentMilla McLachlan
Human Development Network, The World Bank, Washington, DC 20433, USA
Forum Nutr 56:120-2. 2003
Micronutrient supplementation in pregnancyRoger Shrimpton
Lancet 366:2001-2; author reply 2002-3. 2005
Nutrition education in the context of the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition activities and publications, 1985-2006Kaia Engesveen
United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
J Nutr Educ Behav 39:351-6. 2007..The SCN plays an important role to these ends through: 1) the advocacy opportunity offered by the SCN Annual Session; 2) the expertise of the working groups; and 3) the dissemination channels offered by the SCN publications and Web site...
