Nutrition

NUTRITION 

Evidence for Equity seeks to highlight which interventions work and which don’t work (and may be harmful) and to provide this information to people making decisions about health to improve health equity.

On this page you'll find links to summaries of systematic reviews of interventions for improving nutrition and treating malnutrition. Click on the icons in the table below.

These interventions are influenced by personal characteristics captured by the acronym PROGRESS-Plus including place of residence Place of Residence, socioeconomic status Socioeconomic status, and additional charateristics such as sexual orientation PlusRead more about PROGRESS-Plus.

InterventionsOutcomes
DiarrheaStuntingWeightPneumoniaEducationMeasles-related mortalityHypothyroidismMortalityAnaemia
Vitamin ABabies

 

    Babies   
Complementary Feeding BabiesBabies      
ZincBabies  Babies     
School feeding  Children Children    
Iodine      Adult femaleBabies 
Iron and folic acid       BabiesAdult female
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BabiesBabies
ChildrenChildren
Adult femaleAdult Female