Maternal and Child Nutrition

SCIE-ISI SCOPUS (2005-2023)

  1740-8695

  1740-8709

  Anh Quốc

Cơ quản chủ quản:  WILEY , Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Lĩnh vực:
Nutrition and DieteticsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthObstetrics and Gynecology

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Childhood stunting: a global perspective
Tập 12 Số S1 - Trang 12-26 - 2016
Mercedes de Onís, Francesco Branca
AbstractChildhood stunting is the best overall indicator of children's well‐being and an accurate reflection of social inequalities. Stunting is the most prevalent form of child malnutrition with an estimated 161 million children worldwide in 2013 falling below −2 SD from the length‐for‐age/height‐for‐age World Health Organization Child Growth Standards median. Man...... hiện toàn bộ
Long‐term consequences of stunting in early life
Tập 7 Số s3 - Trang 5-18 - 2011
Kathryn G. Dewey, Khadija Begum
AbstractThis review summarizes the impact of stunting, highlights recent research findings, discusses policy and programme implications and identifies research priorities. There is growing evidence of the connections between slow growth in height early in life and impaired health and educational and economic performance later in life. Recent research findings, incl...... hiện toàn bộ
The economic rationale for investing in stunting reduction
Tập 9 Số S2 - Trang 69-82 - 2013
John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Lawrence Haddad, Susan Horton
AbstractThis paper outlines the economic rationale for investments that reduce stunting. We present a framework that illustrates the functional consequences of stunting in the 1000 days after conception throughout the life cycle: from childhood through to old age. We summarize the key empirical literature around each of the links in the life cycle, highlighting gap...... hiện toàn bộ
World Health Organization (WHO) infant and young child feeding indicators: associations with growth measures in 14 low‐income countries
Tập 8 Số 3 - Trang 354-370 - 2012
Bernadette P. Marriott, Alan White, Louise Hadden, Jayne C. Davies, John B. Wallingford
AbstractEight World Health Organization (WHO) feeding indicators (FIs) and Demographic and Health Survey data for children <24 months were used to assess the relationship of child feeding with stunting and underweight in 14 poor countries. Also assessed were the correlations of FI with country gross national income (GNI). Prevalence of underweight and stunting i...... hiện toàn bộ
World Health Organization infant and young child feeding indicators and their associations with child anthropometry: a synthesis of recent findings
Tập 10 Số 1 - Trang 1-17 - 2014
Andrew D. Jones, Scott Ickes, Laura E. Smith, Mduduzi NN Mbuya, Bernard Chasekwa, Rebecca Heidkamp, Purnima Menon, Amanda Zongrone, Robert Ntozini
AbstractAs the World Health Organization (WHO) infant and young child feeding (...... hiện toàn bộ
Complementary feeding practices: Current global and regional estimates
Tập 13 Số S2 - 2017
Jessica M. White, France Bégin, Richard Kumapley, Colleen Crittenden Murray, Julia Krasevec
AbstractInsufficient quantities and inadequate quality of complementary foods, together with poor feeding practices, pose a threat to children's health and nutrition. Interventions to improve complementary feeding are critical to reduce all forms of malnutrition, and access to data to ascertain the status of complementary feeding practices is essential for efforts ...... hiện toàn bộ
A large‐scale operational study of home‐based therapy with ready‐to‐use therapeutic food in childhood malnutrition in Malawi
Tập 3 Số 3 - Trang 206-215 - 2007
Zachary M. Linneman, Danielle Matilsky, MacDonald Ndekha, Micah J. Manary, Kenneth Maleta, Mark Manary
AbstractHome‐based therapy with ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) for the treatment of malnutrition has better outcomes in the research setting than standard therapy. This study examined outcomes of malnourished children aged 6–60 months enrolled in operational home‐based therapy with RUTF. Children enrolled ...... hiện toàn bộ
Age‐appropriate infant and young child feeding practices are associated with child nutrition in India: insights from nationally representative data
Tập 11 Số 1 - Trang 73-87 - 2015
Purnima Menon, Apurva Bamezai, Ali Winoto Subandoro, Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Víctor M. Aguayo
AbstractAge‐appropriate infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices are critical to child nutrition. The objective of this paper was to examine the associations between age‐appropriate IYCF practices and child nutrition outcomes in ... hiện toàn bộ
Maternal common mental disorder and infant growth – a cross‐sectional study from Malawi
Tập 4 Số 3 - Trang 209-219 - 2008
Robert C. Stewart, Eric Umar, Felix Kauye, James Bunn, Maclean Vokhiwa, Margaret Fitzgerald, Barbara Tomenson, Atıf Rahman, Francis Creed
AbstractThe objective of the study was to investigate the association between maternal common mental disorder (CMD) and infant growth in rural Malawi. A cross‐sectional study was conducted at a district hospital child health clinic. Participants were consecutive infants due for measles vaccination, and their mothers.Mean infant weight‐for‐age and l...... hiện toàn bộ
Understanding infant feeding beliefs, practices and preferred nutrition education and health provider approaches: an exploratory study with Somali mothers in the USA
Tập 6 Số 1 - Trang 67-88 - 2010
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