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Esi K Colecraft
Researcher at University of Ghana
Publications - 51
Citations - 880
Esi K Colecraft is an academic researcher from University of Ghana. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nutrition Education & Animal source foods. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 47 publications receiving 708 citations. Previous affiliations of Esi K Colecraft include Iowa State University.
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The Global Nutrition Report 2014: Actions and Accountability to Accelerate the World’s Progress on Nutrition
Lawrence Haddad,Endang Achadi,Mohamed Ag Bendech,Arti Ahuja,Komal Bhatia,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Monika Blössner,Elaine Borghi,Esi K Colecraft,Mercedes de Onis,Kamilla Eriksen,Jessica Fanzo,Rafael Flores-Ayala,Patrizia Fracassi,Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage,Eunice Nago Koukoubou,Julia Krasevec,Holly Newby,Rachel Nugent,Stineke Oenema,Yves Martin-Prével,Judith Randel,Jennifer Harris Requejo,Tara Shyam,Emorn Udomkesmalee,K. Srinath Reddy +25 more
TL;DR: By focusing on undernutrition and overweight, the GNR puts malnutrition in a new light and identifies bottlenecks in the scale-up of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches and highlights actions to accelerate coverage and reach.
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HIV/AIDS: nutritional implications and impact on human development.
TL;DR: The links between nutrition and HIV/AIDS amplify the negative effects of HIV infection on human development at individual, household, community and national levels and is impeding progress towards achieving the UN millennium development goals.
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Prevalence and predictors of overweight and obesity among school-aged children in urban Ghana.
TL;DR: Physical inactivity is a modifiable independent determinant of overweight or obesity among Ghanaian school-aged children and promoting and supporting a physically active lifestyle in this population is likely to reduce risk of childhood overnutrition.
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Constraints on the use of animal source foods for young children in Ghana : A participatory rapid appraisal approach
Esi K Colecraft,Grace S. Marquis,Richmond Aryeetey,Owuraku Sakyi-Dawson,Anna Lartey,B.K. Ahunu,Emmanuel Canacoo,Lorna M Butler,Manju B. Reddy,Helen H. Jensen,Elisabeth J. Huff-Lonergan +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the least expensive ASF was fish, which was easy to preserve and consumed by all communities, and interventions that increase income may be most successful in improving Ghanaian children's diets.
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An agriculture-nutrition intervention improved children's diet and growth in a randomized trial in Ghana.
Grace S. Marquis,Esi K Colecraft,Roland Kanlisi,Bridget Aidam,Afua Atuobi-Yeboah,Comfort Pinto,Richmond Aryeetey +6 more
TL;DR: Integrated interventions that increase access to high-quality foods and nutrition education improve child nutrition and Sensitivity analyses with random-effects and mixed-effects models and as-treated analysis were consistent with the findings.