Changing Nutrition Behavior in Bangladesh: Successful Adaptation of New Theories and Anthropological MethodsFootnote∗

∗This work was done while the first author was on the faculty of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. The second and third authors were students in the MPH program at the time the work was done.

Human subjects and other clearances (also in Methods section): BNEET received Emory University Human Investigations Committee Approval (HIC No. 478-96) in September 1996 and October 1997, as well as USAID Bangladesh Mission clearance (November 1996).

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