David Pelletier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 83228 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Pelletier |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Pelletier |
| ASSINATURA | PELLETIER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0134-6460 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 194 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Engaging Fathers in Child Nutrition
This study aims to examine intra-household gender dynamics in response to a nutrition intervention (maternal Behaviour Change Communication (BCC), paternal BCC, and food vouchers) aimed at improving IYCF practices using qualitative methods. Participants were drawn from a subset of households enrolled in a larger cluster - randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in rural Ethiopia. A total of 40 participants (20 mother-father pairs) from interv…
Behaviour change communication to improve complementary feeding practices in Ethiopia
An important cause of stunting is limited consumption of complementary foods, in terms of both quantities and nutrients. Although existing studies show a positive association between fathers' engagement and children's diet, programmes designed to improve complementary feeding practices often only target mothers. In response to this, maternal behaviour change communication (BCC), paternal BCC and food voucher programmes were designed and implement…
Separation and Savings in Tax-Favored Retirement Accounts Among Canadian Men and Women
Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis
Avec qui les enfants vont-ils vivre ? Facteurs associés au partage du temps parental lors d’une séparation1
Pendant longtemps, la plupart des enfants qui vivaient la séparation de leurs parents allaient habiter avec leur mère. Les parents séparés sont toutefois de plus en plus nombreux à partager les responsabilités parentales de façon plus équitable, notamment par la garde partagée (ou double résidence, ou résidence alternée). Afin d’identifier les caractéristiques des familles qui influencent la manière dont les ex-conjoints partageront le temps pare…
Strengthening advocacy and policy change for infant and young child feeding
The creation of environments that are more supportive of optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) requires countries to enact policies, such as those related to the Maternity Protection Convention, the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code), and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. However, challenges are experienced in the translation of international policy standards into national legal measures, and there …
Contribution of the A live & T hrive– Unicef advocacy efforts to improve infant and young child feeding policies in Southeast Asia
Evaluating the impact of advocacy for policy change presents many challenges. Recent advances in the field of evaluation, such as contribution analysis (CA), offer guidance on how to make credible claims regarding such impact. The purposes of this article are (a) to detail the application of CA to assess the contribution of an advocacy initiative to improve infant and young child feeding policies and (b) to present the emergent theory of change a…
Translating the International Code of Marketing of Breast‐milk Substitutes into national measures in nine countries
The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) adopted by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 1981 and regularly updated through subsequent WHA resolutions, represents the international policy framework for protecting breastfeeding against inappropriate marketing practices. By March 2016, at least 135 countries had some measures covering provisions of the Code in their legislation. The translation of the International Co…
Enhancing governance and strengthening advocacy for policy change of large Collective Impact initiatives
Nutrition issues are increasingly being addressed through global partnerships and multi‐sectoral initiatives. Ensuring effective governance of these initiatives is instrumental for achieving large‐scale impact. The Collective Impact (CI) approach is an insightful framework that can be used to guide and assess the effectiveness of this governance. Despite the utility and widespread use of this approach, two gaps are identified: a limited understan…
Implementation research
An emergency cash transfer program promotes weight gain and reduces acute malnutrition risk among children 6-24 months old during a food crisis in Niger
BACKGROUND: Assessment of the impact of emergency cash transfer programs on child nutritional status has been difficult to achieve due to the considerable logistic and ethical constraints that characterize humanitarian settings. METHODS: We present the findings from a quasi-experimental longitudinal study of a conditional emergency cash transfer program implemented by Concern Worldwide in 2012 during a food crisis in Tahoua, Niger, in which the u…
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…
Perspectives on the coordination of multisectoral nutrition in Mozambique and an emerging framework
Multisectoral approaches represent a prominent ideological consensus, influenced by historical roots and the current political, financial and institutional landscape, to address the multi-faceted and complex causes of most nutrition, public health and food problems. However, the implementation of multisectoral approaches presents tremendous challenges; one of the most often cited problems, in the literature and by practitioners, is coordination. …
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 emergence and effectiveness of global health networks
Global health issues vary in the amount of attention and resources they receive. One reason is that the networks of individuals and organizations that address these issues differ in their effectiveness. This article presents key findings from a research project on the emergence and effectiveness of global health networks addressing tobacco use, alcohol harm, maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Although networks are…
The diffusion of cohabitation and children's risks of family dissolution in Canada
Because cohabiting unions are, on average, less stable than marriages, the diffusion of childbearing within cohabitation could lead to an overall increase in family instability. The possibility that cohabiting families become increasingly stable throughout
Food and nutrition policy
OBJECTIVES: Biological anthropologists within academia and in other sectors are increasingly engaged in a variety of problem-oriented research and in the design, implementation, or evaluation of policies and programs, domestically and abroad. Such work can have distinctive requirements in terms of disciplinary background, professional orientation, and professional development. This article explores these issues through the author's autobiographic…
Stigma as a barrier to treatment for child acute malnutrition in M arsabit C ounty, K enya
Acute malnutrition affects millions of children each year, yet global coverage of life-saving treatment through the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) is estimated to be below 15%. We investigated the potential role of stigma as a barrier to accessing CMAM. We surveyed caregivers bringing children to rural health facilities in Marsabit County, Kenya, divided into three strata based on the mid-upper arm circumference of the ch…
The principles and practices of nutrition advocacy
Advocacy represents an intervention into complex, dynamic and highly contextual socio-political systems, in which strategies and tactics must be adjusted on a continual basis in light of rapidly changing conditions, reactions from actors and feedback. For this reason, the practice of advocacy is often considered more art than science. However, capacities and practices for advocacy can be strengthened by sharing and analysing experiences in varyin…
Nutrition agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation
Undernutrition is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease and can be addressed through a number of highly efficacious interventions. Undernutrition generally has not received commensurate attention in policy agendas at global and national levels, however, and implementing these efficacious interventions at a national scale has proven difficult. This paper reports on the findings from studies in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Guatemal…
L’habitat du Néolithique final de Quinssaines, Le Bournadiau
A late Neolithic settlement was explored during excavations in the northeast of the Allier département, at Bournadiau near Quinsaines, in 2007. Despite erosion, the excavation revealed a ditch and traces of two buildings. The ceramic assemblage and the stone tool industry, partly imported from Grand Pressigny, illustrate the contacts between the inhabitants and the cultural groups from Western-Central (Artenac) and Northern France (Gord). An unus…
Approche économique et spatiale du campement azilien des Varennes à Pérignat-sur-Allier (Puy-de-Dôme)
Ce travail présente les résultats de la fouille d’un site azilien de plein air en Limagne d’Auvergne. Le site correspond à une accumulation de vestiges lithiques autour d’une structure de combustion démantelée constituée de galets. Les matières premières utilisées sont majoritairement locales (silex oligocènes) et exploitées selon des schémas laminaires uni-et bipolaires destinés à produire des lames rectilignes dont une part importante a été exp…
It Really Opened My Eyes
This study explored the effects of participating in action research on youth leaders who were already engaged in peer education activities related to HIV/AIDS. We focused particularly on effects related to their conceptualization of teaching/learning, but also cast a wider net to identify other changes. A first round of in-depth interviews was conducted with 21 youth peer educators, who led the participatory action research (PAR) in UNICEF's
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…
The shaping of collective values through deliberative democracy
Epidemiologic evidence for a potentiating effect of malnutrition on child mortality
OBJECTIVES. Despite broad agreement that severe malnutrition contributes to child mortality in developing countries and that malnutrition has a physiologically synergistic relationship with morbidity, evidence of an epidemiologic synergism has been lacking. Also, the literature provides conflicting evidence concerning the existence of elevated mortality among children with mild to moderate malnutrition. A review of published population-based stud…
Nutrition agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation
Undernutrition is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease and can be addressed through a number of highly efficacious interventions. Undernutrition generally has not received commensurate attention in policy agendas at global and national levels, however, and implementing these efficacious interventions at a national scale has proven difficult. This paper reports on the findings from studies in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Guatemal…
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 emergence and effectiveness of global health networks
Global health issues vary in the amount of attention and resources they receive. One reason is that the networks of individuals and organizations that address these issues differ in their effectiveness. This article presents key findings from a research project on the emergence and effectiveness of global health networks addressing tobacco use, alcohol harm, maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Although networks are…
Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis
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 diffusion of cohabitation and children's risks of family dissolution in Canada
Because cohabiting unions are, on average, less stable than marriages, the diffusion of childbearing within cohabitation could lead to an overall increase in family instability. The possibility that cohabiting families become increasingly stable throughout
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
Perspectives on the coordination of multisectoral nutrition in Mozambique and an emerging framework
Multisectoral approaches represent a prominent ideological consensus, influenced by historical roots and the current political, financial and institutional landscape, to address the multi-faceted and complex causes of most nutrition, public health and food problems. However, the implementation of multisectoral approaches presents tremendous challenges; one of the most often cited problems, in the literature and by practitioners, is coordination. …
Le gisement mésolithique et néolithique de Blachette sud (Sinard, Isère)
Pelletier David, Muller-Pelletier Carine, Alix Philippe, Riche Caroline. Le gisement mésolithique et néolithique de Blachette sud (Sinard, Isère) : premiers résultats. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 101, n°3, 2004. pp. 604-610
Local food policy coalitions
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…
Comparison of two growth charts in Lesotho
BACKGROUND: Two growth monitoring charts widely used for growth monitoring in Africa (the Road-to-Health (RTH) and the Growth Surveillance (GS] were compared in order to assist the Government of Lesotho to decide on an appropriate national growth chart. METHODS: Thirty-four health workers were taught and tested on the RTH during a first week of training and on the GS during a second week (the RTH-GS group), while the order was reversed for anothe…
L’habitat du Néolithique final de Quinssaines, Le Bournadiau
A late Neolithic settlement was explored during excavations in the northeast of the Allier département, at Bournadiau near Quinsaines, in 2007. Despite erosion, the excavation revealed a ditch and traces of two buildings. The ceramic assemblage and the stone tool industry, partly imported from Grand Pressigny, illustrate the contacts between the inhabitants and the cultural groups from Western-Central (Artenac) and Northern France (Gord). An unus…
The Role of Information Systems in Decision-Making Following Disasters
Nutritional surveillance refers to the collection and use of information for decision-making in relation to the nutrition of a population, including decisions concerning policy and planning, program management and evaluation, and timely warning and intervention at national or de-centralized levels. An agricultural disaster in one district of Malawi in 1986/87 destroyed the staple food crop and provided the opportunity to assist and observe govern…
Separation and Savings in Tax-Favored Retirement Accounts Among Canadian Men and Women
Approche économique et spatiale du campement azilien des Varennes à Pérignat-sur-Allier (Puy-de-Dôme)
Ce travail présente les résultats de la fouille d’un site azilien de plein air en Limagne d’Auvergne. Le site correspond à une accumulation de vestiges lithiques autour d’une structure de combustion démantelée constituée de galets. Les matières premières utilisées sont majoritairement locales (silex oligocènes) et exploitées selon des schémas laminaires uni-et bipolaires destinés à produire des lames rectilignes dont une part importante a été exp…
Revisiting the Unicef malnutrition framework to foster agriculture and health sector collaboration to reduce malnutrition
The development of a surveillance system to monitor emergency food relief in New York State
A representative sample of emergency food relief (EFR) programs was selected on the basis of a census of 1,488 EFR programs in New York State. The census was a two-stage telephone survey. EFR was provided in every county although there was considerable variation in the amount of EFR per county. The soup kitchen and food pantry components of EFR had to be differentiated. The surveillance system was operational one year after the census began
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…
The development of a surveillance system to monitor emergency food relief in New York State
A representative sample of emergency food relief (EFR) programs was selected on the basis of a census of 1,488 EFR programs in New York State. The census was a two-stage telephone survey. EFR was provided in every county although there was considerable variation in the amount of EFR per county. The soup kitchen and food pantry components of EFR had to be differentiated. The surveillance system was operational one year after the census began
The Role of Information Systems in Decision-Making Following Disasters
Nutritional surveillance refers to the collection and use of information for decision-making in relation to the nutrition of a population, including decisions concerning policy and planning, program management and evaluation, and timely warning and intervention at national or de-centralized levels. An agricultural disaster in one district of Malawi in 1986/87 destroyed the staple food crop and provided the opportunity to assist and observe govern…
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
Comparison of two growth charts in Lesotho
BACKGROUND: Two growth monitoring charts widely used for growth monitoring in Africa (the Road-to-Health (RTH) and the Growth Surveillance (GS] were compared in order to assist the Government of Lesotho to decide on an appropriate national growth chart. METHODS: Thirty-four health workers were taught and tested on the RTH during a first week of training and on the GS during a second week (the RTH-GS group), while the order was reversed for anothe…
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. …
Epidemiologic evidence for a potentiating effect of malnutrition on child mortality
OBJECTIVES. Despite broad agreement that severe malnutrition contributes to child mortality in developing countries and that malnutrition has a physiologically synergistic relationship with morbidity, evidence of an epidemiologic synergism has been lacking. Also, the literature provides conflicting evidence concerning the existence of elevated mortality among children with mild to moderate malnutrition. A review of published population-based stud…
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
Local food policy coalitions
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 shaping of collective values through deliberative democracy
Values, public policy, and community food security
Découvertes archéologiques majeures sur le tracé de l'A51 à Sinard (Isère)
Ozanne Jean-Claude, Pelletier David, Cordier Frédéric. Découvertes archéologiques majeures sur le tracé de l'A51 à Sinard (Isère). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 101, n°3, 2004. pp. 601-603
Sustainability of the policy sciences
Le gisement mésolithique et néolithique de Blachette sud (Sinard, Isère)
Pelletier David, Muller-Pelletier Carine, Alix Philippe, Riche Caroline. Le gisement mésolithique et néolithique de Blachette sud (Sinard, Isère) : premiers résultats. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 101, n°3, 2004. pp. 604-610
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