Armando Garcia-Guerra

The Integrated Strategy for Attention in Nutrition (EsIAN) Reduces the Prevalence of Anemia in Children 6 to 59 Months in the Context of a Conditional Cash-transfer Program in Mexico

Armando Garcia-Guerra, Lynnette M. Neufeld, Amado Davida Quezada, Ana Cecilia Fernandez-Gaiola & Amira Hernandez-Cabrera · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: EsIAN is designed to improve nutritional outcomes through a strong behavior change campaign and free distribution of nutritional products (micronutrient powders, MNP and/or a fortified complementary food, FCF) for children 6 m to 5 y of age living in poverty.  Both pr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21243

An Integrated Strategy for Attention in Nutrition (EsIAN) Increases Physicians' and Nurses' Nutrition Knowledge and Perceptions in Mexico

Ana Cecilia Fernandez-Gaxiola, Armando Garcia-Guerra, Lynnette M. Neufeld, Amado D. Quezada-Sanchez, Amira Hernandez-Cabrera, Anabelle Bonvecchio, Ana Lilia Lozada & Juan Rivera · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: To assess changes in physicians' and nurses nutrition knowledge and perceptions from EsIAN. EsIAN was developed to attend to the nutritional needs of Oportunidades beneficiary families. Oportunidades is the Mexican conditional cash transfer program. In Mexico, appropr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21141