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Measurement of Health and Nutrition Effects of Large-Scale Nutrition Intervention Projects

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Increasingly the nutritional impact of complex intervention packages is being sought. Typically these complex interventions include intentional changes in the economic, social and political environment as well as in medical and nutritional factors. We are concerned in this paper with the critical issues of the choice of indicators necessary to evaluate these complex interventions with multiple treatments.

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  1. Jean-Pierre Habicht

    Present address: Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA

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  1. National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA

    Jean-Pierre Habicht

  2. Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA

    William P. Butz

  3. Fundación para la Educación Superior, Cali, Colombia

    A. Pradilla

  4. Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

    L. F. Fajardo & G. Acciarri

  5. World Health Organization, G.P.O. Box 250, Dacca, Bangladesh

    A. Pradilla

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  1. Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Pan American Health Organization, Guatemala, Guatemala

    Robert E. Klein

  2. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., USA

    Merrill S. Read  & Carlos H. Daza  & 

  3. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Henry W. Riecken

  4. U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., USA

    James A. Brown Jr.

  5. Foundation for Higher Education, Cali, Colombia

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Habicht, JP., Butz, W.P., Pradilla, A., Fajardo, L.F., Acciarri, G. (1979). Measurement of Health and Nutrition Effects of Large-Scale Nutrition Intervention Projects. In: Klein, R.E., Read, M.S., Riecken, H.W., Brown, J.A., Pradilla, A., Daza, C.H. (eds) Evaluating the Impact of Nutrition and Health Programs. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3489-7_6

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