Jean-Pierre Habicht
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3710084 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jean-Pierre Habicht |
| PRENOMES | Jean-Pierre |
| SOBRENOME | Habicht |
| ASSINATURA | HABICHT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Jef L. Leroy and Stefano M. Bertozzi are with the Mexican National Institute of Public Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica), Cuernavaca, Mexico. Stefano M. Bertozzi is also with the Center for Economics Research and Education, Mexico City, and the University of California, Berkeley. Jean-Pierre Habicht and Gretel Pelto are with the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 275 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, and improved complementary feeding, on child stunting and anaemia in rural Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: Child stunting reduces survival and impairs neurodevelopment. We tested the independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) on stunting and anaemia in in Zimbabwe. METHODS: We did a cluster-randomised, community-based, 2 × 2 factorial trial in two rural districts in Zimbabwe. Clusters were defined as the catchment area of between one and four villag…
Discouraging premastication may do more harm than good
Premastication
Premastication of foods for infants was a crucial behavioural adaptation to neoteny that ensured nutritional adequacy during the period of complementary feeding throughout the course of human evolution until recent times.While the paps and gruels of agricultural systems provided an alternative and modern food technology appears to make it unnecessary, we argue that, in addition to its role in nutrition, premastication also played a crucial role i…
Leroy Et Al. Respond
We read Woolf and Johnson’s letter with great interest. The similarity of the findings for developing countries and the United States is impressive,1 as they reflect the influence of the shared assumptions in the research community that lead to low investments in research to improve the fidelity (quality) of health care delivery and utilization. We have a slight correction to make to their letter. Our research shows that 6 million (not 4 million)…
Current Priorities in Health Research Funding and Lack of Impact on the Number of Child Deaths per Year
We determined the proportion of research on childhood mortality directed toward better medical technology (i.e., by improving old technology or creating new technology) compared with research on technology delivery and utilization. We also estimated mortality reductions from a research-funding strategy focusing primarily on developing technology compared with one that also focused on delivery and utilization. Ninety-seven percent of grants were f…
Improving quality and efficiency of facility-based child health care through Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Tanzania
IMCI improved the quality and efficiency of child health care relative to routine child health care in the study districts. Previous study results indicated that the introduction of IMCI in these Tanzanian districts was associated with mortality levels that were 13% lower than in comparison districts. We can therefore conclude that IMCI is also more cost-effective than routine care for improving child health outcomes. The dissemination strategy f…
Context matters
Appropriate consideration of contextual factors is essential for ensuring internal and external validity of randomized and non-randomized evaluations. Contextual factors may confound the association between delivery of the intervention and its potential health impact. They may also modify the effect of the intervention or programme, thus affecting the generalizability of results. This is particularly true for large-scale health programmes, for wh…
Programmatic pathways to child survival
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the expectations held by World Health Organization programme personnel about how the introduction of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy would lead to improvements in child health and nutrition, to compare these expectations with what was learned from the Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI Effectiveness, Cost and Impact (MCE-IMCI), and to discuss the implications of these findings for child surviva…
Measuring the quality of child health care at first-level facilities
Impact of the Mexican Program for Education, Health, and Nutrition (Progresa) on Rates of Growth and Anemia in Infants and Young Children
CONTEXT: Malnutrition causes death and impaired health in millions of children. Existing interventions are effective under controlled conditions; however, little information is available on their effectiveness in large-scale programs. OBJECTIVE: To document the short-term nutritional impact of a large-scale, incentive-based development program in Mexico (Progresa), which included a nutritional component. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A rando…
Evidence-Based Public Health
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are essential for evaluating the efficacy of clinical interventions, where the causal chain between the agent and the outcome is relatively short and simple and where results may be safely extrapolated to other settings. However, causal chains in public health interventions are complex, making RCT results subject to effect modification in different populations. Both the internal and external validity of RCT fin…
The Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Strategy
The Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) includes studies of the effectiveness, cost, and impact of the IMCI strategy in Bangladesh, Brazil, Peru, Tanzania, and Uganda. Seven questions were addressed when the evaluation was designed: who would be in charge, through what mechanisms IMCI could affect child health, whether the focus would be efficacy or effectiveness, what indicators would be measured, wh…
Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality
Characterization of household food insecurity in Québec
Food Insecurity
Timing of the influence of maternal nutritional status during pregnancy on fetal growth
This study, which used data from a longitudinal nutrition study of mothers and infants in rural Guatemala, tested a hypothesis that the influence of maternal nutritional status on various measurements of fetal growth is trimester-specific. The relationships between various measures of newborn size and the changes of maternal anthropometry at various stages of pregnancy were analyzed by ordinary least squares multiple regression techniques. The sa…
Winkvist and Colleagues Respond
In family medicine we seek to build upon the strengths offamilies, whether urban or rural, disadvantaged or wealthy. Our emphasis is on inclusion: all of us are members of families and communities, with our own weaknesses and contributions to make to the public health. Understanding healthy and unhealthy family systems may lead to more effective family interventions and improved health out- comes for the entire community
Understanding hunger and developing indicators to assess it in women and children
The lack of an operational definition for hunger has been frequently cited as a barrier to progress in addressing the problem. The purposes of this research were to develop an understanding of hunger from the perspective of women who had experienced it and to construct and evaluate indicators to measure hunger directly in similar populations. In-depth interviews were conducted with 32 women of childbearing age from rural and urban areas of Upstat…
Ruel and Habicht Respond
Ruel and Habicht Respond Marie T. Ruel, and Jean-Pierre Habicht C J Geefhuysen Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.82.6.899 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Predicting total body water from bioelectrical impedance in children
Concepts about infant health, growth, and weaning
Equity in Public-Sector Primary Health Care
Growth in Early Childhood in Developing Countries
Infant mortality decline in Malaysia, 1946–1975
Individual-level retrospective data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey are used to examine why the infant mortality rate (IMR) has declined rapidly in Malaysia since World War II. Substantial increases in mothers’ education and improvements in water and sanitation have contributed. However, breastfeeding reductions have kept the IMR from declining as rapidly as it would have otherwise. The detrimental effects of reduced breastfeeding more than…
Environmental factors in the relationship between breastfeeding and infant mortality
Mothers recall data collected in Malaysia in 1976-77 are analyzed to study correlates of mortality of 5471 infants. Respondent population is 1262 women living in 52 primary sampling units of Peninsular Malaysia. Lengths of unsupplemented and supplemented breastfeeding and presence of piped household water and toilet sanitation are related to infant mortality in regressions that also control other correlates. The analysis is disaggregated into 3 p…
Characterization of household food insecurity in Québec
Evidence-Based Public Health
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are essential for evaluating the efficacy of clinical interventions, where the causal chain between the agent and the outcome is relatively short and simple and where results may be safely extrapolated to other settings. However, causal chains in public health interventions are complex, making RCT results subject to effect modification in different populations. Both the internal and external validity of RCT fin…
Infant mortality decline in Malaysia, 1946–1975
Individual-level retrospective data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey are used to examine why the infant mortality rate (IMR) has declined rapidly in Malaysia since World War II. Substantial increases in mothers’ education and improvements in water and sanitation have contributed. However, breastfeeding reductions have kept the IMR from declining as rapidly as it would have otherwise. The detrimental effects of reduced breastfeeding more than…
Context matters
Appropriate consideration of contextual factors is essential for ensuring internal and external validity of randomized and non-randomized evaluations. Contextual factors may confound the association between delivery of the intervention and its potential health impact. They may also modify the effect of the intervention or programme, thus affecting the generalizability of results. This is particularly true for large-scale health programmes, for wh…
Programmatic pathways to child survival
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the expectations held by World Health Organization programme personnel about how the introduction of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy would lead to improvements in child health and nutrition, to compare these expectations with what was learned from the Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI Effectiveness, Cost and Impact (MCE-IMCI), and to discuss the implications of these findings for child surviva…
Assessing socioeconomic correlates of birthweight in peninsular Malaysia
Environmental Effects on Child-Spacing and Population Increase in Highland Guatemala
Concepts about infant health, growth, and weaning
Premastication
Premastication of foods for infants was a crucial behavioural adaptation to neoteny that ensured nutritional adequacy during the period of complementary feeding throughout the course of human evolution until recent times.While the paps and gruels of agricultural systems provided an alternative and modern food technology appears to make it unnecessary, we argue that, in addition to its role in nutrition, premastication also played a crucial role i…
The Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Strategy
The Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) includes studies of the effectiveness, cost, and impact of the IMCI strategy in Bangladesh, Brazil, Peru, Tanzania, and Uganda. Seven questions were addressed when the evaluation was designed: who would be in charge, through what mechanisms IMCI could affect child health, whether the focus would be efficacy or effectiveness, what indicators would be measured, wh…
Is Big Smart
Robert E. Klein, Jerome Kagan, Howard E. Freeman, Charles Yarbrough, Jean-Pierre Habicht, Is Big Smart?: The Relation of Growth to Cognition, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), pp. 219-225
Current Priorities in Health Research Funding and Lack of Impact on the Number of Child Deaths per Year
We determined the proportion of research on childhood mortality directed toward better medical technology (i.e., by improving old technology or creating new technology) compared with research on technology delivery and utilization. We also estimated mortality reductions from a research-funding strategy focusing primarily on developing technology compared with one that also focused on delivery and utilization. Ninety-seven percent of grants were f…
Improving quality and efficiency of facility-based child health care through Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Tanzania
IMCI improved the quality and efficiency of child health care relative to routine child health care in the study districts. Previous study results indicated that the introduction of IMCI in these Tanzanian districts was associated with mortality levels that were 13% lower than in comparison districts. We can therefore conclude that IMCI is also more cost-effective than routine care for improving child health outcomes. The dissemination strategy f…
Measuring the quality of child health care at first-level facilities
Equity in Public-Sector Primary Health Care
Health for All by the Year 2000
Health for All by the Year 2000 Jean-Pierre Habicht CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.5.459 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Is Big Smart
Robert E. Klein, Jerome Kagan, Howard E. Freeman, Charles Yarbrough, Jean-Pierre Habicht, Is Big Smart?: The Relation of Growth to Cognition, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), pp. 219-225
Environmental Effects on Child-Spacing and Population Increase in Highland Guatemala
Height and Weight Standards for Preschool Children
Assurance of quality of the provision of primary medical care by non-professionals
Health for All by the Year 2000
Health for All by the Year 2000 Jean-Pierre Habicht CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.5.459 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Environmental factors in the relationship between breastfeeding and infant mortality
Mothers recall data collected in Malaysia in 1976-77 are analyzed to study correlates of mortality of 5471 infants. Respondent population is 1262 women living in 52 primary sampling units of Peninsular Malaysia. Lengths of unsupplemented and supplemented breastfeeding and presence of piped household water and toilet sanitation are related to infant mortality in regressions that also control other correlates. The analysis is disaggregated into 3 p…
Assessing socioeconomic correlates of birthweight in peninsular Malaysia
Growth in Early Childhood in Developing Countries
Infant mortality decline in Malaysia, 1946–1975
Individual-level retrospective data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey are used to examine why the infant mortality rate (IMR) has declined rapidly in Malaysia since World War II. Substantial increases in mothers’ education and improvements in water and sanitation have contributed. However, breastfeeding reductions have kept the IMR from declining as rapidly as it would have otherwise. The detrimental effects of reduced breastfeeding more than…
Predicting total body water from bioelectrical impedance in children
Concepts about infant health, growth, and weaning
Equity in Public-Sector Primary Health Care
Understanding hunger and developing indicators to assess it in women and children
The lack of an operational definition for hunger has been frequently cited as a barrier to progress in addressing the problem. The purposes of this research were to develop an understanding of hunger from the perspective of women who had experienced it and to construct and evaluate indicators to measure hunger directly in similar populations. In-depth interviews were conducted with 32 women of childbearing age from rural and urban areas of Upstat…
Ruel and Habicht Respond
Ruel and Habicht Respond Marie T. Ruel, and Jean-Pierre Habicht C J Geefhuysen Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.82.6.899 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Winkvist and Colleagues Respond
In family medicine we seek to build upon the strengths offamilies, whether urban or rural, disadvantaged or wealthy. Our emphasis is on inclusion: all of us are members of families and communities, with our own weaknesses and contributions to make to the public health. Understanding healthy and unhealthy family systems may lead to more effective family interventions and improved health out- comes for the entire community
Timing of the influence of maternal nutritional status during pregnancy on fetal growth
This study, which used data from a longitudinal nutrition study of mothers and infants in rural Guatemala, tested a hypothesis that the influence of maternal nutritional status on various measurements of fetal growth is trimester-specific. The relationships between various measures of newborn size and the changes of maternal anthropometry at various stages of pregnancy were analyzed by ordinary least squares multiple regression techniques. The sa…
Food Insecurity
Characterization of household food insecurity in Québec
Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality
Impact of the Mexican Program for Education, Health, and Nutrition (Progresa) on Rates of Growth and Anemia in Infants and Young Children
CONTEXT: Malnutrition causes death and impaired health in millions of children. Existing interventions are effective under controlled conditions; however, little information is available on their effectiveness in large-scale programs. OBJECTIVE: To document the short-term nutritional impact of a large-scale, incentive-based development program in Mexico (Progresa), which included a nutritional component. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A rando…
Evidence-Based Public Health
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are essential for evaluating the efficacy of clinical interventions, where the causal chain between the agent and the outcome is relatively short and simple and where results may be safely extrapolated to other settings. However, causal chains in public health interventions are complex, making RCT results subject to effect modification in different populations. Both the internal and external validity of RCT fin…
The Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Strategy
The Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) includes studies of the effectiveness, cost, and impact of the IMCI strategy in Bangladesh, Brazil, Peru, Tanzania, and Uganda. Seven questions were addressed when the evaluation was designed: who would be in charge, through what mechanisms IMCI could affect child health, whether the focus would be efficacy or effectiveness, what indicators would be measured, wh…
Improving quality and efficiency of facility-based child health care through Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Tanzania
IMCI improved the quality and efficiency of child health care relative to routine child health care in the study districts. Previous study results indicated that the introduction of IMCI in these Tanzanian districts was associated with mortality levels that were 13% lower than in comparison districts. We can therefore conclude that IMCI is also more cost-effective than routine care for improving child health outcomes. The dissemination strategy f…
Context matters
Appropriate consideration of contextual factors is essential for ensuring internal and external validity of randomized and non-randomized evaluations. Contextual factors may confound the association between delivery of the intervention and its potential health impact. They may also modify the effect of the intervention or programme, thus affecting the generalizability of results. This is particularly true for large-scale health programmes, for wh…
Programmatic pathways to child survival
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the expectations held by World Health Organization programme personnel about how the introduction of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy would lead to improvements in child health and nutrition, to compare these expectations with what was learned from the Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI Effectiveness, Cost and Impact (MCE-IMCI), and to discuss the implications of these findings for child surviva…
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