Kirrily de Polnay

Dados Biográficos

ID7987024
NOMEKirrily de Polnay
PRENOMESKirrily
SOBRENOMEde Polnay
ASSINATURADE POLNAY K
AFILIAÇÕESWorld Health Organization
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2017
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Developing the 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children

    Open AccessCeleste Naude, Michael McCaul et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    The 2023 WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years has a broad scope aligned with WHO’s responsibility to develop a comprehensive guideline as part of the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting. A WHO technical team consisting of the WHO Steering Committee for this guideline, supported by a consultant and two independent methodologists, coordinated guid…

  • Strengthening the evidence base around prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children

    Open AccessAllison I Daniel, Kirrily de Polnay et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    box In 2023, WHO released a guideline on prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years as part of the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, a consolidated framework to accelerate progress in prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema

  • Development of core outcome sets for effectiveness trials focused on infants and children with wasting and nutritional oedema

    Open AccessAllison I Daniel, Kirrily de Polnay et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: The 2023 WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema includes recommendations informed by best evidence from systematic reviews addressing critical and important outcomes. Multiple outcomes across trials were a challenge during guideline development, highlighting a need to establish core outcome sets (COS) for wasting and nutritional oedema. Informed by Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Tria…

  • Infants and children 6–59 months of age with moderate wasting

    Open AccessIndi Trehan, Robert H J Bandsma et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema provides the first systematically developed evidence-informed set of recommendations and good practice statements for children 6–59 months of age with moderate wasting

  • Micronutrient powder supplements combined with nutrition education marginally improve growth amongst children aged 6–23 months in rural Burkina Faso

    Open AccessHermann Biénou Lanou, Saskia Osendarp et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Micronutrients powder (MNP) can prevent anaemia amongst children 6-23 months old. However, evidence of an effect on growth is limited and concerns about the safety of iron-containing MNP interventions limits their applicability. In a cluster randomized controlled intervention, we evaluated the effectiveness of a nutritional package including counselling and provision of MNP to improve the nutritional status of children aged 6-23 months and the ef…

  • High burden of malaria and anemia among tribal pregnant women in a chronic conflict corridor in India

    Open AccessGustavo C Corrêa, Mrinalini Das et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2017

    Systematic screening for malaria and anemia should be integrated into maternal and child health services for conflict affected populations in highly endemic tribal areas. Interventions should include the use of rapid diagnostic test for all pregnant women at every visit, regardless of symptoms. Further studies should evaluate the impact of this intervention alone or in combination with intermittent malaria preventive treatment