Karin Lapping

Biographic Data

ID6457274
NAMEKarin Lapping
GIVEN NAMESKarin
FAMILY NAMELapping
SIGNATURELAPPING K
AFFILIATIONSFamily Health International 360
ORCID0000-0002-1110-2817
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • Social, economic, and political events affect gender equity in China, Nepal, and Nicaragua

    Open AccessTuan T Nguyen, Ashley Darnell et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    Background: Progress in gender equity can improve health at the individual and country levels.Objectives: This study’s objective was to analyze recent trends in gender equity and identify historical and contextual factors that contributed to changes in gender equity in three countries: China, Nepal, and Nicaragua.Methods: To assess gender equity trends, we used the Gender Gap Index (GGI) from the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report (2…

  • National nutrition strategies that focus on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition in Southeast Asia do not consistently align with regional and international recommendations

    Open AccessTuan T Nguyen, Ashley Darnell et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    We examined the consistency of national nutrition strategies and action plans (NNS) focusing on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition in Southeast Asia with regional and international recommendations. Between July and December 2017, we identified and extracted information on context, objectives, interventions, indicators, strategies, and coordination mechanisms from the most recent NNS in nine Southeast Asian countries. All NNS described co…

  • Real‐time evaluation can inform global and regional efforts to improve breastfeeding policies and programmes

    Open AccessFrance Begin, Karin Lapping et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    The authors Michaud-Létourneau et al. have identified three main drivers that large initiatives should adopt to enhance their effectiveness in advocacy for policy change: (a) the use of an explicit advocacy approach, (b) the creation of a strategic group of actors, and (c) the realization of 15 critical tasks, more specifically related to implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) (Michaud-Létourne…

  • Lessons from using cluster-randomized evaluations to build evidence on large-scale nutrition behavior change interventions

    Open AccessPratiksha Menon, Purnima Menon et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2019Cited by: 1

  • Suaahara in Nepal

    Open AccessKenda Cunningham, Akriti Singh et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2017

    The burden of undernutrition in South Asia is greater than anywhere else. Policies and programmatic efforts increasingly address health and non-health determinants of undernutrition. In Nepal, one large-scale integrated nutrition program, Suaahara, aimed to reduce undernutrition among women and children in the 1,000-day period, while simultaneously addressing inequities. In this study, we use household-level process evaluation data (N = 480) to a…

  • Willingness to pay for lipid‐based nutrient supplements for young children in four urban sites of E thiopia

    Open AccessJoel Segrè, Kim Winnard et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2012

    Malnutrition in children under 5 years of age is pervasive in Ethiopia across all wealth quintiles. The objective of this study was to determine the willingness to pay (WTP) for a week's supply of Nutributter® (a lipid-based nutrient supplement, or LNS) through typical urban Ethiopian retail channels. In February, 2012, 128 respondents from 108 households with 6-24-month-old children had the opportunity to sample Nutributter® for 2 days in their …

  • Prospective analysis of the development of the national nutrition agenda in Vietnam from 2006 to 2008

    Open AccessKarin Lapping, Edward A Frongillo et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2012Cited by: 1References: 14

    Improved understanding of how to advance national nutrition policy is critical to ensure greater policy investments in nutrition. We used a participant-observer, change-agent model to prospectively study why and how national nutrition policy advanced in Vietnam between 2006 and 2008. Our goal was to understand strategies used, factors that shaped policy advancement, and the interaction of strategies with factors in this context. Data were collect…