Nutrition education and mega-dose vitamin A supplementation in Nepal
1998
Two approaches to improve vitamin A nutriture are compared: nutrition education and mega-dose capsule distribution. The impact of these programmes on vitamin A deficiency (VAD), wasting malnutrition, and excessive childhood mortality are compared for approximately 40,000 children who were assigned to either intervention cohorts or a control group from 75 sites within seven districts in two ecological settings (Terai, or lowland, and hills) of Nepal.
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