Essential Health Links: Nutrition/Severe Acute Malnutrition and Emergencies

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Community-based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition
Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)
Guidelines for the Inpatient Treatment of Severely Malnourished Children
PubMed - Free Full Text Articles on Malnutrition
Valid International

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Community-based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This 8-page document was published in 2007 by WHO, World Food Programme, UNICEF and UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. It gives an overview of the problem of severe acute malnutrition and practical information on how to implement a community-based project with ready-to-use-therapeutic foods. http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/Statement_community_based_man_sev_acute_mal_eng.pdf

Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
ENN aims to accelerate learning and strengthen institutional memory in the emergency food and nutrition sector. The organization publishes Field Exchange, a tri-annual magazine containing field articles, research and news items for those working in emergency nutrition and food security. Also available are several field manuals. http://www.ennonline.net/ 

Guidelines for the Inpatient Treatment of Severely Malnourished Children  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Published by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in June 2005, the site gives step-by-step treatment guidelines for severely malnourished children. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/nphiru/research/malnutrition.pdf

PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Malnutrition (12500+)
This PubMed search will identify all malnutrition related free fulltext e-journal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. .New fulltext articles are added to the PubMed database weekly. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=%22loattrfree+full+text%22%5Bsb%5D+AND+(%22malnutrition%22%5BMeSH+Terms%5D+OR+malnutrition%5BText+Word%5D)&WebEnv=0mjNINNao1gAUIMH6QyOBDLOciApyWFoXZt9Bz-f2C6H9vg-mu7TqjGuwbvJPncFVfjjVCFNk5lNUr%402563364D79E8BD60_0178SID&WebEnvRq=1

Valid International  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Valid International is a UK based non-governmental organization that organizes (evidence-based) community based-therapeutic care programs in many developing countries. The site contains information about the organization and its programs. It includes links to field manuals and reports about these programs. http://www.validinternational.org/pages/

The Nutrition pages of Essential Health Links are advised by Ann Burgess, freelance nutrition consultant, member of the Nutrition Society, UK and Marlou Bijlsma, nutrition consultant.

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Updated: 18 February 2008