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Mary Arimond
Researcher at International Food Policy Research Institute
Publications - 37
Citations - 2994
Mary Arimond is an academic researcher from International Food Policy Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Child rearing. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 37 publications receiving 2713 citations.
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Dietary Diversity Is Associated with Child Nutritional Status: Evidence from 11 Demographic and Health Surveys
Mary Arimond,Marie T. Ruel +1 more
TL;DR: There is an association between child dietary diversity and nutritional status that is independent of socioeconomic factors, and that dietary diversity may indeed reflect diet quality, which is suggested to be recommended for widespread use as an indicator of diet quality.
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A Food-Based Approach Introducing Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes Increased Vitamin A Intake and Serum Retinol Concentrations in Young Children in Rural Mozambique
TL;DR: Integrated promotion of orange-fleshed sweet potato can complement other approaches and contribute to increases in vitamin A intake and serum retinol concentrations in young children in rural Mozambique and similar areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Dietary Diversity Is a Good Predictor of the Micronutrient Density of the Diet of 6- to 23-Month-Old Children in Madagascar
Mourad Moursi,Mourad Moursi,Mary Arimond,Kathryn G. Dewey,Serge Trèche,Marie T. Ruel,Francis Delpeuch +6 more
TL;DR: The results support the growing evidence of the usefulness of dietary diversity to predict dietary quality, and among infants and young children more specifically.
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Age-based preventive targeting of food assistance and behaviour change and communication for reduction of childhood undernutrition in Haiti: a cluster randomised trial
Marie T. Ruel,Purnima Menon,Jean-Pierre Habicht,Cornelia Loechl,Gilles Bergeron,Gretel H. Pelto,Mary Arimond,John A. Maluccio,Lesly Michaud,Bekele Hankebo +9 more
TL;DR: The preventive programme was more effective for the reduction of childhood undernutrition than the traditional recuperative model and the quality of implementation did not differ between the two programmes.
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New and updated indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding.
TL;DR: The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have released new and updated indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices for use in population-based surveys and guided by updated recommendations for the duration of exclusive breastfeeding.