Authors: Michel Juarez, Carlos Dionicio, Neftali Sacuj, Waleska Lopez, Ann C. Miller and Peter Rohloff
Despite efforts to increase access to evidence-based nutrition interventions, cases of chronic child malnutrition (stunting) in rural Guatemala are among the highest in the world. The writers of this study examine a community-based quality improvement intervention in a region with a high rate of stunting. The addition of structured performance visualization, audit and feedback components to an existing community-based nutrition program improved child health indicators significantly. Over the course of the intervention, the prevalence of child stunting fell from 42.4 to 30.6%.
Link: Community-Based Interventions to Reduce Child Stunting in Rural Guatemala: A Quality Improvement Model
Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Rural, malnutrition
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2021
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
Country: Guatemala
Publisher May Restrict Access: No
