Inge D. Brouwer

Monitoring and Evaluation of Complex Market-based Approaches to Improve Micronutrient Malnutrition: The Case of Amsterdam Initiative against Malnutrition (AIM)

Inge D. Brouwer, Marlene Roefs, Sjoerd Dijkstra & Charlotte Pedersen · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: AIM is a partnership of 20 organizations in Europe and Africa. It includes 7 projects that combine assurance of sufficient and affordable quality of food supply (‘push') with stimulation of demand for nutritious foods (‘pull'). AIM provides the opportunity to assess t...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21150

Proxy Markers of Serum Retinol Concentration, Used Alone and in Combination, to Assess Population Vitamin A Status in Kenyan Children

Elise F. Talsma, Hans Verhoef, Inge D. Brouwer, Anne Mburu-deWagt, Paul J. M. Hulshof & Alida Melse-Boonstra · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: To assess the diagnostic performance of serum concentrations of retinol-binding protein (RBP), transthyretin, retinol concentration measured by fluorometry and RBP:transthyretin molar ratio, either alone or in combination, to estimate the prevalence of vitamin A defic...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20993