Know Your Deficiencies, Know Your Response, Know Your Costs: A Commentary on Micronutrient Program Optimization Modeling

Food Nutr Bull. 2015 Sep;36(3 Suppl):S208-10. doi: 10.1177/0379572115597092.

Authors

Shawn K Baker¹, Patrizia Fracassi², Roland Kupka³, Lynnette Neufeld⁴, Meera Shekar⁵

Affiliations

¹ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA shawn.baker@gatesfoundation.org.
² Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Nutrition Section, UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Nutrition, Health, & Population Global Practice, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.

PMID: 26385987
DOI: 10.1177/0379572115597092

No abstract available

Keywords: micronutrient deficiencies; nutrition policy; optimization modeling; scaling up nutrition.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Deficiency Diseases / economics
Deficiency Diseases / epidemiology
Deficiency Diseases / prevention & control*
Global Health
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
Humans
National Health Programs
Nutrition Policy