David L Pelletier
Biographic Data
| ID | 120717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Pelletier |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Pelletier |
| SIGNATURE | PELLETIER D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Program in International Nutrition Cornell University Ithaca New York USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Feasibility of integrating calcium and iron–folate supplementation to prevent preeclampsia and anemia in pregnancy in primary healthcare facilities in Kenya
Calcium (Ca) supplementation to prevent preeclampsia can save maternal and newborn lives, but there are no program models for integration into existing antenatal care platforms. We used a program impact pathway model to guide the design of integrated Ca and iron-folate (IFA) supplementation in Kenya. We provided healthcare providers with job aids (posters and counseling cards), trained them on counseling techniques and supplementation guidelines,…
Who knows what
Worldwide, mothers with young children receive many messages about infant feeding. Some messages are generated by health providers and others by the households, communities, and social contexts in which women live. We aimed to determine the scope of infant feeding messages in urban Haiti and to examine intracultural differences in salience of these messages and their alignment with international guidelines. We applied the method of free listing w…
A framework on the emergence and effectiveness of global health networks
Since 1990 mortality and morbidity decline has been more extensive for some conditions prevalent in low- and middle-income countries than for others. One reason may be differences in the effectiveness of global health networks, which have proliferated in recent years. Some may be more capable than others in attracting attention to a condition, in generating funding, in developing interventions and in convincing national governments to adopt polic…
The effect of dietary iron intake on the development of iron overload among homozygotes for haemochromatosis
Objective To quantify the role of dietary Fe in total body Fe (TBI) accumulation among homozygotes for the HFE gene associated with haemochromatosis. Design A Monte Carlo model was built to simulate Fe accumulation based on findings from human feeding experiments and national dietary surveys. A hypothetical cohort of 1000 homozygotes with starting age 25 years was used in 39-year simulations. The impact of reducing dietary Fe intake on Fe accumul…
Revisiting the Unicef malnutrition framework to foster agriculture and health sector collaboration to reduce malnutrition
The potential effect of iron defortification on iron-deficiency anaemia in the US population
Objective To quantify the potential effect of iron defortification in the USA on iron-deficiency anaemia (IDA). Methods Monte Carlo models were built to simulate iron nutrition in the US population. A hypothetical cohort of 15 000 persons from the general population was used in 15-year simulations to compare the prevalence of IDA with and without fortification. Results With iron fortification, the prevalence of IDA was 2.4% for children aged 3–5 …
FDA’s regulation of genetically engineered foods
Values, public policy, and community food security
The timing of maternal weight gain during pregnancy and fetal growth
The morbidity, mortality, and growth patterns of intrauterine growth retarded (IUGR) infants vary according to body proportionality, or the ponderal index. Much less in known, however, about the factors that give rise to the various forms of IUGR. This study tests that hypothesis that the rate of maternal weight gain during early/mid and late pregnancy are differentially related to body size and proportions at birth in a nutritionally stressed po…
The timing hypothesis and body proportionality of the intra-uterine growth retarded infant
Intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR) is a heterogeneous designation, as seen in the fact that neonatal morbidity and mortality differ for IUGR infants that are disproportionate vs proportionate based on the ponderal index (weight/height(3)). Much less is known, however, concerning the etiology of these two forms. This study tests the hypothesis that the form of IUGR (proportionate vs disproportionate) is related to the timing of stress during …
Ecological, social and institutional influences on nutrition policy
Community food security
The food-first bias and nutrition policy
As in many countries from sub-Saharan Africa, nutrition policy in Ethiopia is dominated by a focus on national and household food production and food security. The results of the 1992 national rural nutrition survey, and a substantial body of evidence and theory from other settings, challenge this view. In Ethiopia, high levels of chronic malnutrition exist in food deficit and food surplus regions alike, and all regions have experienced worsening…
Early supplementary feeding and cognition
The use of information in the Iringa Nutrition Programme
The Iringa Nutrition Programme (INP) in Tanzania is a community-based programme to improve the nutritional status of women and children. It differs from most other programmes of its size by employing a process approach to identify causes of and solutions to malnutrition at household and community levels. This process approach requires that households and communities be sensitized to the nature of malnutrition in society; that they be trained and …
The role of information in the planning, management and evaluation of community nutrition programmes
Protein-energy malnutrition has many diverse location-specific causes which make if difficult to solve through uniform interventions implemented through vertical programmes. This paper investigates the role of information in the planning, management and evaluation of several community nutrition programmes judged to be successful. The programmes come from Tanzania (Iringa), India (Tamil Nadu), Dominican Republic and Colombia. The review finds that…
Malawi maternal and child nutrition study
The Malawi Maternal and Child Nutrition (MMCN) Study is a three‐year longitudinal investigation of some of the determinants and consequences of protein‐energy malnutrition in a rural African population. This paper describes the anthropometric characteristics of children and adults based on the baseline census conducted in the 89 villages included in the MMCN Study. Mean length‐for‐age of Malawian children (birth‐60 months) is very low (Z‐score = …
Sources of measurement variation in child anthropometry in the Malawi maternal and child nutrition study
An examination of intra- and inter-observer error in child anthropometry and variation between two skinfold calipers was conducted as part of a large prospective study of maternal and child nutrition in Malawi, Central Africa. Measurements include length, weight, head and arm circumferences, triceps and subscapular skinfolds, and estimated cross-sectional arm fat and arm muscle areas. Total observer error, expressed as a percentage of total varia…
Nutrition in project planning intra-household risks and determinants
The use of national sample surveys for nutritional surveillance
National sample surveys, containing measurements of the weights and heights of children along with other socioeconomic modules, represent one of the important sources of information for nutritional surveillance. The potential uses of such information are political sensitization, targeting by geographic area, targeting by socioeconomic group, and identifying the most promising intervention options according to the presumed causes of malnutrition. …
The relationship of energy intake and expenditure to body fatness in Western Samoan men
This study examines the relationship of energy intake and expenditure patterns to differences in body fatness among young Western Samoan men who vary in the rural/urban location and type of occupation. Levels of body fatness were significantly higher among men employed in the urban area of Apia than in residents of a rural village. Among urban employed men, those with physically sedentary occupations were significantly fatter than those performin…
Patterns of growth in weight and length among American Samoan infants
Well baby clinic records on 1, 186 infants born in 1975 to 1976 on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, form the basis for this study of the growth in weight and length from birth to 12 months. Semi‐longitudinal curves of weight and length indicate that these infants have median weights near the NCHS 75th percentile (boys) and 90th percentile (girls) up to 6 months, falling to just below the 75th percentile by 12 months. Median lengths are betw…
Patterns of growth in weight among infants in a rural Western Samoa village
The growth records of 55 infants from the village of Sale'a'aumua, Western Samoa, have been analyzed to describe patterns of growth in weight from birth to oneyear of age. This group of infants is unusual in that they are living in a lesser developed setting, but they also have mothers with substantial energy stores. The Samoan children equal or exceed the NCHS 50th percentile of weight up to the age of nine months, after which time they average …
A framework on the emergence and effectiveness of global health networks
Since 1990 mortality and morbidity decline has been more extensive for some conditions prevalent in low- and middle-income countries than for others. One reason may be differences in the effectiveness of global health networks, which have proliferated in recent years. Some may be more capable than others in attracting attention to a condition, in generating funding, in developing interventions and in convincing national governments to adopt polic…
The use of national sample surveys for nutritional surveillance
National sample surveys, containing measurements of the weights and heights of children along with other socioeconomic modules, represent one of the important sources of information for nutritional surveillance. The potential uses of such information are political sensitization, targeting by geographic area, targeting by socioeconomic group, and identifying the most promising intervention options according to the presumed causes of malnutrition. …
Values, public policy, and community food security
Community food security
The food-first bias and nutrition policy
As in many countries from sub-Saharan Africa, nutrition policy in Ethiopia is dominated by a focus on national and household food production and food security. The results of the 1992 national rural nutrition survey, and a substantial body of evidence and theory from other settings, challenge this view. In Ethiopia, high levels of chronic malnutrition exist in food deficit and food surplus regions alike, and all regions have experienced worsening…
FDA’s regulation of genetically engineered foods
The use of information in the Iringa Nutrition Programme
The Iringa Nutrition Programme (INP) in Tanzania is a community-based programme to improve the nutritional status of women and children. It differs from most other programmes of its size by employing a process approach to identify causes of and solutions to malnutrition at household and community levels. This process approach requires that households and communities be sensitized to the nature of malnutrition in society; that they be trained and …
The role of information in the planning, management and evaluation of community nutrition programmes
Protein-energy malnutrition has many diverse location-specific causes which make if difficult to solve through uniform interventions implemented through vertical programmes. This paper investigates the role of information in the planning, management and evaluation of several community nutrition programmes judged to be successful. The programmes come from Tanzania (Iringa), India (Tamil Nadu), Dominican Republic and Colombia. The review finds that…
Revisiting the Unicef malnutrition framework to foster agriculture and health sector collaboration to reduce malnutrition
Patterns of growth in weight and length among American Samoan infants
Well baby clinic records on 1, 186 infants born in 1975 to 1976 on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, form the basis for this study of the growth in weight and length from birth to 12 months. Semi‐longitudinal curves of weight and length indicate that these infants have median weights near the NCHS 75th percentile (boys) and 90th percentile (girls) up to 6 months, falling to just below the 75th percentile by 12 months. Median lengths are betw…
Patterns of growth in weight among infants in a rural Western Samoa village
The growth records of 55 infants from the village of Sale'a'aumua, Western Samoa, have been analyzed to describe patterns of growth in weight from birth to oneyear of age. This group of infants is unusual in that they are living in a lesser developed setting, but they also have mothers with substantial energy stores. The Samoan children equal or exceed the NCHS 50th percentile of weight up to the age of nine months, after which time they average …
The relationship of energy intake and expenditure to body fatness in Western Samoan men
This study examines the relationship of energy intake and expenditure patterns to differences in body fatness among young Western Samoan men who vary in the rural/urban location and type of occupation. Levels of body fatness were significantly higher among men employed in the urban area of Apia than in residents of a rural village. Among urban employed men, those with physically sedentary occupations were significantly fatter than those performin…
Malawi maternal and child nutrition study
The Malawi Maternal and Child Nutrition (MMCN) Study is a three‐year longitudinal investigation of some of the determinants and consequences of protein‐energy malnutrition in a rural African population. This paper describes the anthropometric characteristics of children and adults based on the baseline census conducted in the 89 villages included in the MMCN Study. Mean length‐for‐age of Malawian children (birth‐60 months) is very low (Z‐score = …
Sources of measurement variation in child anthropometry in the Malawi maternal and child nutrition study
An examination of intra- and inter-observer error in child anthropometry and variation between two skinfold calipers was conducted as part of a large prospective study of maternal and child nutrition in Malawi, Central Africa. Measurements include length, weight, head and arm circumferences, triceps and subscapular skinfolds, and estimated cross-sectional arm fat and arm muscle areas. Total observer error, expressed as a percentage of total varia…
Nutrition in project planning intra-household risks and determinants
The use of national sample surveys for nutritional surveillance
National sample surveys, containing measurements of the weights and heights of children along with other socioeconomic modules, represent one of the important sources of information for nutritional surveillance. The potential uses of such information are political sensitization, targeting by geographic area, targeting by socioeconomic group, and identifying the most promising intervention options according to the presumed causes of malnutrition. …
The use of information in the Iringa Nutrition Programme
The Iringa Nutrition Programme (INP) in Tanzania is a community-based programme to improve the nutritional status of women and children. It differs from most other programmes of its size by employing a process approach to identify causes of and solutions to malnutrition at household and community levels. This process approach requires that households and communities be sensitized to the nature of malnutrition in society; that they be trained and …
The role of information in the planning, management and evaluation of community nutrition programmes
Protein-energy malnutrition has many diverse location-specific causes which make if difficult to solve through uniform interventions implemented through vertical programmes. This paper investigates the role of information in the planning, management and evaluation of several community nutrition programmes judged to be successful. The programmes come from Tanzania (Iringa), India (Tamil Nadu), Dominican Republic and Colombia. The review finds that…
The food-first bias and nutrition policy
As in many countries from sub-Saharan Africa, nutrition policy in Ethiopia is dominated by a focus on national and household food production and food security. The results of the 1992 national rural nutrition survey, and a substantial body of evidence and theory from other settings, challenge this view. In Ethiopia, high levels of chronic malnutrition exist in food deficit and food surplus regions alike, and all regions have experienced worsening…
Early supplementary feeding and cognition
The timing of maternal weight gain during pregnancy and fetal growth
The morbidity, mortality, and growth patterns of intrauterine growth retarded (IUGR) infants vary according to body proportionality, or the ponderal index. Much less in known, however, about the factors that give rise to the various forms of IUGR. This study tests that hypothesis that the rate of maternal weight gain during early/mid and late pregnancy are differentially related to body size and proportions at birth in a nutritionally stressed po…
The timing hypothesis and body proportionality of the intra-uterine growth retarded infant
Intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR) is a heterogeneous designation, as seen in the fact that neonatal morbidity and mortality differ for IUGR infants that are disproportionate vs proportionate based on the ponderal index (weight/height(3)). Much less is known, however, concerning the etiology of these two forms. This study tests the hypothesis that the form of IUGR (proportionate vs disproportionate) is related to the timing of stress during …
Ecological, social and institutional influences on nutrition policy
Community food security
Values, public policy, and community food security
FDA’s regulation of genetically engineered foods
The potential effect of iron defortification on iron-deficiency anaemia in the US population
Objective To quantify the potential effect of iron defortification in the USA on iron-deficiency anaemia (IDA). Methods Monte Carlo models were built to simulate iron nutrition in the US population. A hypothetical cohort of 15 000 persons from the general population was used in 15-year simulations to compare the prevalence of IDA with and without fortification. Results With iron fortification, the prevalence of IDA was 2.4% for children aged 3–5 …
Revisiting the Unicef malnutrition framework to foster agriculture and health sector collaboration to reduce malnutrition
The effect of dietary iron intake on the development of iron overload among homozygotes for haemochromatosis
Objective To quantify the role of dietary Fe in total body Fe (TBI) accumulation among homozygotes for the HFE gene associated with haemochromatosis. Design A Monte Carlo model was built to simulate Fe accumulation based on findings from human feeding experiments and national dietary surveys. A hypothetical cohort of 1000 homozygotes with starting age 25 years was used in 39-year simulations. The impact of reducing dietary Fe intake on Fe accumul…
A framework on the emergence and effectiveness of global health networks
Since 1990 mortality and morbidity decline has been more extensive for some conditions prevalent in low- and middle-income countries than for others. One reason may be differences in the effectiveness of global health networks, which have proliferated in recent years. Some may be more capable than others in attracting attention to a condition, in generating funding, in developing interventions and in convincing national governments to adopt polic…
Who knows what
Worldwide, mothers with young children receive many messages about infant feeding. Some messages are generated by health providers and others by the households, communities, and social contexts in which women live. We aimed to determine the scope of infant feeding messages in urban Haiti and to examine intracultural differences in salience of these messages and their alignment with international guidelines. We applied the method of free listing w…
Feasibility of integrating calcium and iron–folate supplementation to prevent preeclampsia and anemia in pregnancy in primary healthcare facilities in Kenya
Calcium (Ca) supplementation to prevent preeclampsia can save maternal and newborn lives, but there are no program models for integration into existing antenatal care platforms. We used a program impact pathway model to guide the design of integrated Ca and iron-folate (IFA) supplementation in Kenya. We provided healthcare providers with job aids (posters and counseling cards), trained them on counseling techniques and supplementation guidelines,…
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