Publications

Nutrition

• ACC/SCN. 4th Report on the World Nutrition Situation. Geneva, International Food Policy Institute, January, 2000.

• Ahari M, Houser RF, Yassin S, et al. A positive deviance-based antenatal nutrition project improves birth-weight in Upper Egypt. J Health Popul Nutr. 2006;24(4): 498-507.

• Berggren G, Tuan T. Evaluation of the Save the Children Foundation (SCF) Poverty Alleviation/Nutrition Program (PANP). Than Hoa Province, Vietnam: Save the Children Foundation, 1995.

• Berggren G. Nutritional Education and Rehabilitation Program: A Save the Children Project in Vietnam, Save the Children,1995.

• Berggren WL, Wray JD. Positive deviant behavior and nutrition education. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):7-8.

• Bhat D. What makes the difference? Applying the positive deviance approach to improve pregnancy outcomes. Fourth Annual Abraham Horowitz Lecture. SCN News UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. December 2000.

• Bich Ha P, Bentley M, Pachón H, Sripaipan T, Caulfield L, Marsh D, and Schroeder D. Caregiver styles of feeding and child acceptance of food in rural Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):92-98.

• Bolles K, Speraw C, Berggren G, Lafontant JG. Ti Foyer (hearth) community-based nutrition activities informed by the positive deviance approach in Leongane, Haiti: A programmatic description. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):9-15.

• Bonetti, Umberito. Gam beretto dei miracoli. Panorama. 22 Aprile 2004 XLII N.17 (1983) p. 110-116. www.panorama.it.

• CORE Group. Training of Trainers Workshop: Positive Deviance and Hearth: Mechanisms for Community-Based Management of Malnutrition. The Core Group/ USAID/ Counterpart India. Lead trainer: Donna Sillan. December 8-12, 2003. 

• CORE Group. Positive Deviance/ Hearth for Nutrition Technical Advisory Group Meeting. Washington, DC. December 5, 2002.

• Cribbin M. Application of a Positive Deviance Inquiry in the Oruro Altiplano. A thesis submitted to the Department of International Health Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, 2000. A summary of the work that led to this paper can be found on Emory's website.

• Dearden KA, Quan LN, Do M, et al. Work outside the home is the primary barrier to exclusive breastfeeding in rural Viet Nam: insights from mothers who exclusively breastfed and worked. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):99-106.

• Dearden KA, Quan LN, Do M, et al. What influences health behavior? Learning from caregivers of young children in Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):117-127.

• Dickey V, Pachon H, Marsh DR, et al. Implementation of nutrition education and rehabilitation programs (NERPs) in Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):75-82.

• El-Sayed N. Assignment Report on Evaluation of Positive Deviance: A Pilot Nutrition Intervention in Minia Governorate. UNICEF and Save the Children. May, 1999.

• Food and Nutrition Bulletin - The Positive Deviance Approach to Improve Health Outcomes: Experience and Evidence from the Field. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):1-137.

• Ha PB, Bentley ME, Pachon H, et al. Caregiver styles of feeding and child acceptance of food in rural Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):92-98.

• Hendrickson JL, Dearden K, Pachon H, An NH, Schroeder DG, Marsh DR. Empowerment in Rural Viet Nam: Exploring changes in mothers and health volunteers in the context of an integrated nutrition project. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):83-91.

• Iorungwa, Agwa Samuel and Iombor Theophilus Terhemba. Nutritional Sustainability via Positive Deviance: Challenges for Teaching, Research and Extension. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition 8 (10): 1706-1710, 2009.

• Kadio D, Kaba M, Blackett-Dibinga K, Sidibé S, Anah, K, Fleming, W.Improving the nutritional status of orphans and malnourished children in Guinea.

• Lapping K, Schroeder D, Marsh D, Albalak R, Jabarkhil MZ. Comparison of a positive deviant inquiry with a case-control study to identify factors associated with nutrition status among Afghan refugee children in Pakistan. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):26-33.

• Levinson FJ, Ahrari M. Quantitative and Qualitative Assessments of Positive Deviance-Based Nutrition Interventions in Minia Governorate. Save the Children Egypt. March, 2000.

• Levinson FJ, Barney J, Bassett L, Schultink W. Utilization of positive deviance analysis in evaluating community-based nutrition programs: an application to the Dular program in Bihar, India. Food Nutr Bull. 2007;28(3):259-265.

• Mackintosh UAT, Marsh DR, Schroeder DG. Sustained positive deviant child care practices and their effects on child growth in Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):16-25.

• Marsh DR, Pachon H, Schroeder DG, et al.Design of a prospective, randomized evaluation of an integrated nutrition program in rural Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):34-44.

• Marsh DR, Schroeder DG. The positive deviance approach to improve health outcomes: experience and evidence from the field - Preface. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):3-6.

• Mattosinho SG, Lord H.Positive Deviance. J Trop Pediatrics. 1996;42(4):247-248.

• National Hearth Nutrition Workshop Report. Dabola Prefecture, Faranah Regions, Guinea, West Africa with support from USAID/Guinea, UNICEF/Guinea, Prefectoral Department of health and the Regional Department of Health-Faranah. February 2000.

• Ndiaye M,  Siekmans K, Haddad S, and Receveur O. Impact of a positive deviance approach to improve the effectiveness of an iron-supplementation program to control nutritional anemia among rural Senegalese pregnant women. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 2009; 30 (2): 128-136.

• Nti CA, Lartey A. Influence of care practices on nutritional status of Ghanaian children. Nutrition Research and Practice. 2008; 2(2): 93-99.

• Pachon H, Schroeder DG, Marsh DR, Dearden KA, Ha TT, Lang TT. Effect of an integrated child nutrition intervention on the complementary food intake of young children in rural North Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):59-66.

• Pryer JA, Rogers S, Rahman A. The epidemiology of good nutritional status among children from a population with a high prevalence of malnutrition. Public Health Nutr. 2004;7(2):311-7.

• Range SKR, Naved R and Bhattarti S. Child care practices associated with positive and negative nutritional outcome for children in Bangladesh: A descriptive analysis. IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 24. February 1997.

• Save the Children. Positive Deviance Pilot Project, Nutrition Program, Gomphy, Zhemgang. Bhutan Program, Himalayan Field Office, Save the Children/USA, February 1998.

• Save the Children US. What is Positive Deviance? (Written in Bahasa Indonesia and English). Positive Deviance Bulletin, Vol 1 No.1 October 2003.

• Schroeder DG, Pachon H, Dearden KA, Ha TT, Lang TT, Marsh DR. An integrated child nutrition intervention improved growth of younger, more malnourished children in northern Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):50-58.

• Sethi V, Kashyap S, Seth V, Agarwal S. Encouraging Appropriate Infant Feeding Practices in Slums: A Positive Deviance Approach. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition 2 (3): 164-166, 2003. 
   

• Shekar M, Habicht JP, and Latham MC. Is positive deviance in growth simply the converse of negative deviance? Food Nutr Bull. 1991;13(1):7-11. This article is available from the Food and Nutrition Bulletin web site.

• Shekar, M, Habicht JP, Latham MC. Use of positive-negative deviant analysis to improve programme targeting and services: an example from the TamilNadu Integrated Nutrition Project. Int J Epidemiol. 1992;21(4):707-13.

• Sillan D. DRAFT: The Field Cookbook for the HEARTH Nutrition Model and Using the Positive Deviance Approach. Sponsored by the CORE Group and CSTS. September 2000.

• Sripaipan T, Schroeder DG, Marsh DR, et al.Effect of an integrated nutrition program on child morbidity due to respiratory infection and diarrhea in northern Viet Nam. Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):67-74.

• Sternin M, Sternin J, Marsh D. Designing a Community-Based Nutrition Program Using the Hearth Model and the Positive Deviance Approach - A Field Guide. Save the Children, December 1998.

• Sternin M, Sternin J, Marsh D. Rapid, sustained childhood malnutrition alleviation through a positive deviance approach in rural Vietnam: preliminary findings. In Wollinka O, Keeley E, Burkhalter B and Bashir N (eds), The Hearth Nutrition Model: Applications in Haiti, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. Arlington, VA: BASICS, 1997.

• Tuan T, Marsh D, Ha T, Schroeder D, Thach T, Dung V, and Huong N. Weighing Vietnamese children: How accurate are child weights adjusted for estimates of clothing weight? Food Nutr Bull. 2002;23(4):45-49.

• Vazir S. Behavioral aspects of development of eating behavior and nutrition status. Nutr Rev. 2002;60(5-2):S95-101.

• Vossenaar M, Mayorga E, Soto-Mendez MJ, et al. The positive deviance approach can be used to create culturally appropriate eating guides compatible with reduced cancer risk. J Nutr. 2009;139(4):755-62.

• Wishik SM, Van der Vynckt S. The use of nutritional "positive deviants" to identify approaches for modification of dietary practices. Am J Public Health. 1976;66(1):38-42.

• Zeitlin M. Nutritional resilience in a hostile environment: positive deviance in child nutrition. Nutr Rev. 1991;49(9):259-68.

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