Prieto-Patron, Alberto http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-3493
V. Hutton, Zsuzsa
Fattore, Giovanni
Sabatier, Magalie
Detzel, Patrick
Article History
Received: 16 May 2018
Accepted: 5 December 2019
First Online: 7 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Procedures and questionnaires for standard DHS surveys have been reviewed and approved by ICF Institutional Review Board (IRB). Additionally, country-specific DHS survey protocols are reviewed by the ICF IRB and typically by an IRB in the host country. ICF IRB ensures that the survey complies with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulations for the protection of human subjects (45 CFR 46), while the host country IRB ensures that the survey complies with laws and norms of the nation.
: Not applicable.
: Dr. Prieto Patron, Dr. Detzel, Dr. Sabatier, and Dr. Hutton are employed by Nestec SA, Nestlé Research Center. Prof. Giovanni Fattore, who leads a project sponsored by Nestec SA at Bocconi University on the economic evaluation methods for nutrition, did not receive any direct or indirect remuneration for his contribution to this work.