Browsing by Author "Penny, Mary E."
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Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Household Food Security and Child Anthropometry at Ages 5 and 8 Years in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam
Humphries, Debbie L.; Dearden, Kirk A.; Crookston, Benjamin T.; Fernald, Lia C.; Stein, Aryeh D.; Woldehanna, Tassew; Penny, Mary E.; Behrman, Jere R. (American Society for Nutrition, 2015)Background: Poor childhood nutritional status has lifetime effects and food insecurity is associated with dietary practices that can impair nutritional status. Objectives: We assessed concurrent and subsequent associations ... -
Does household access to improved water and sanitation in infancy and childhood predict better vocabulary test performance in Ethiopian, Indian, Peruvian and Vietnamese cohort studies?
Dearden, Kirk A.; Brennan, Alana T.; Behrman, Jere R.; Crookston, Benjamin T.; Humphries, Debbie L.; Penny, Mary E.; Fernald, Lia C.H. (BMJ, 2017)Objective: Test associations between household water and sanitation (W&S) and children's concurrent and subsequent Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting Ethiopia, India, ... -
Does Visual Acuity Have an Effect on Children’s Educational Achievement?
Cueto, Santiago; Escobal, Javier; León, Juan; Penny, Mary E. (Young Lives, 2017)Inequity is an important issue for many international initiatives, including the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One aspect of inequity that has received little attention is the impact of disability on ... -
Early rapid weight gain and subsequent overweight and obesity in middle childhood in Peru
Penny, Mary E.; Jimenez, Michelle; Marin, Margot (BiomedCentral, 2016)Background: Rapid postnatal weight gain is associated with risk of overweight and obesity, but it’s unclear whether this holds in populations exposed to concurrent obesogenic risk factors and for children who have been ... -
Influences on eating: a qualitative study of adolescents in a periurban area in Lima, Peru
Banna, Jinnan C.; Buchthal, Opal Vanessa; Delormier, Treena; Creed-Kanashiro, Hillary M.; Penny, Mary E. (BiomedCentral, 2016)Background: Peruvian adolescents are at high nutritional risk, facing issues such as overweight and obesity, anemia, and pregnancy during a period of development. Research seeking to understand contextual factors that ... -
Parental Acceptance of HPV Vaccine in Peru: A Decision Framework
Bartolini, Rosario M.; Winkler, Jennifer L.; Penny, Mary E.; LaMontagne, D. Scott (PLOS, 2012-10)Objective and Method: Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer affecting women worldwide and it is an important cause of death, especially in developing countries. Cervical cancer is caused by human papillomavirus ... -
¿Qué hemos aprendido del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio en el Perú? : síntesis de hallazgos
Cueto, Santiago; Escobal, Javier; Felipe, Claudia; Pazos, Nicolás; Penny, Mary E.; Rojas, Vanessa; Sánchez, Alan; Young Lives (Young Lives, 2018-06)Desde el 2001, Niños del Milenio se caracterizó por ser un estudio ambicioso. Fue diseñado para entender de qué manera la pobreza infantil se asociaba o tenía impacto en el desarrollo de alrededor de 12 000 niños y niñas ... -
Selection and Induction of Supervisors for Fieldwork : Experiences from Young Lives in Peru
Penny, Mary E.; Oré, Beatriz; Madrid, Sofia (Young Lives, 2012-06)Young Lives fieldwork teams consist of the fieldworkers who will collect the data and one or more field supervisors. A team has been defined as ‘a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a ...