Background: Reducing inequalities in women's nutrition and health care can accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goals for maternal and child health. Nutrition interventions for women are delivered through maternal health services such as antenatal care and institutional deliveries, but whether they reach and protect the disadvantaged against malnutrition is not well documented.
Objective: To assess the similarities in socioeconomic disparities and inequalities in the nutritional status and health care of women.
Background: Children in the 6-23-mo age group need to consume adequate energy and nutrients for healthy growth, brain development, cognition, and future productivity. Yet, large deficits remain. Complementary feeding practices can be improved on a large scale, but whether interventions reach and benefit disadvantaged mothers is not known.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInequalities in breastfeeding programmes and practices have slowed global progress in providing the life-saving protection of breastfeeding for millions of infants despite well-known life-long impacts. As breastfeeding interventions are scaled up, inequalities in coverage and breastfeeding practices should be tracked, particularly in disadvantaged groups, who are likely to suffer the most serious health and developmental impacts of poor childhood nutrition. The literature provides evidence of inequalities in breastfeeding practices, but research is limited on socioeconomic disparities in the coverage of breastfeeding interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Research is available on improved coverage and practices from several large-scale maternal nutrition programmes, but not much is known on change in inequalities. This study analyses wealth and education inequality using Erreygers and Concentration indices for four indicators: adequate iron and folic acid (IFA) consumption, women's dietary diversity, and counselling on IFA and dietary diversity.
Design: A pre-test-post-test, control group design.
Aim: To evaluate and compare the rates of local recurrence in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients who undergo selective transarterial radioembolisation (TARE) or transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) and achieve a complete response (CR) radiologically.
Materials And Methods: All patients undergoing treatment with TARE or TACE at a single academic institution were reviewed retrospectively. Those who had been treated previously, presented with multifocal disease, had non-selective TARE or TACE, or did not achieve a complete response (CR) radiologically were excluded.