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Jacobs, Krista Lynne.

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Nutrition interventions in northern Ghana: Determinants of participation and impacts on knowledge and practice.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Nutrition interventions in northern Ghana: Determinants of participation and impacts on knowledge and practice./
Author:	Jacobs, Krista Lynne.
Description:	308 p.
Notes:	Adviser: James A. Chalfant.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3230645
ISBN:	9780542844393

Nutrition interventions in northern Ghana: Determinants of participation and impacts on knowledge and practice.
Jacobs, Krista Lynne.

Nutrition interventions in northern Ghana: Determinants of participation and impacts on knowledge and practice. - 308 p.

Adviser: James A. Chalfant.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2006.

In 2002, educational interventions (mother-to-mother support groups), food-based interventions (including a porridge enrichment program), and a microcredit program were implemented in Ghana's Savelugu-Nanton District. One of the aims of the interventions was to improve children's vitamin A consumption.

ISBN: 9780542844393Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Nutrition interventions in northern Ghana: Determinants of participation and impacts on knowledge and practice.
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520 $a We jointly model the probability of mothers' awareness of the interventions with the probability of participation conditional on awareness. Principles of epidemiology inform a model of how a mother becomes aware of an intervention. Mothers who were economically engaged; in the ethnic majority, or not on traditional childbirth visit were more likely to be aware of the interventions. Lack of awareness of the interventions was the main barrier to mothers' participation. Once awareness of the interventions is controlled for, no other variables in the model have substantial associations with mothers' participation.
520 $a We use three approaches to assess the influences of the interventions on mothers' vitamin A knowledge and children's vitamin A consumption. First, we measure the impacts of different combinations of the interventions being present in a community using regression and ordered probit analyses. Second, we measure the impacts of mothers' participation in the interventions accounting for the endogeneity of participation. Third, we use propensity score matching to estimate the impacts of participation in the interventions. Participation in the mother-to-mother support groups is associated with children consuming egg and red palm oil more frequently, higher total frequency of consumption of vitamin A rich foods, and children consuming more vitamin A from foods emphasized in the interventions. Participation in the porridge enrichment component of the food based interventions is associated with greater maternal vitamin A knowledge and more frequent egg consumption among children. Participation in the microcredit intervention is associated with children consuming egg more frequently and consuming more vitamin A from emphasized foods.
520 $a Other determinants of children's consumption of vitamin A rich foods include the child's age, mother's vitamin A knowledge, education, ethnicity, and whether or not she is on traditional childbirth visit, household expenditures, and household cultivated land area. Other determinants of mothers' vitamin A knowledge include household access to radio and household expenditures.
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