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Review and meta-analyses of issues related to mainstreaming nutrition in MCH

Malnutrition is a multi-sectoral problem that needs to be addressed sector by sector. The sectors like health, education, water and sanitation, agriculture and trade etc have a role to play to address malnutrition. Being aware of this need, World Bank awarded a grant under its Development Grant Facility to ICDDR;B Bangladesh to host a partnership to mainstream nutrition through health sectors. The plan is to learn from this experience and to follow this up with an expanded partnership that would bring under its umbrella similar efforts through other critical sectors. One of the key objectives of this initiative is to support the documentation of the evidence, lessons and experiences from strengthening the nutrition component in Maternal and Child health initiatives. This global review of nutrition interventions coordinated by the Mainstreaming nutrition initiative is a part of this larger attempt.The review was published in a special issue: Strategies and Interventions in Public Health Nutrition; Maternal and Child Nutrition; Volume 4 Issue s1 – April 2008

Content

Editorial

Mainstreaming interventions in the health sector to address maternal and child undernutrition (p 1-4)

Mainstreaming nutrition into maternal and child health programmes: scaling up of exclusive breastfeeding (p 5-23)
Nita Bhandari, A.K.M. Iqbal Kabir, Mohammed Abdus Salam

Systematic review of the efficacy and effectiveness of complementary feeding interventions in developing countries (p 24-85)
Kathryn G. Dewey, Seth Adu-Afarwuah

Growth monitoring and promotion: review of evidence of impact (p 86-117)
Ann Ashworth, Roger Shrimpton, Kazi Jamil

A review and meta-analysis of the impact of intestinal worms on child growth and nutrition (p 118-236)
Andrew Hall, Gillian Hewitt, Veronica Tuffrey, Nilanthi de Silva

Mainstreaming nutrition in maternal, newborn and child health: barriers to seeking services from existing maternal, newborn, child health programmes (p 237-255)
Peter K. Streatfield, Tracey P. Koehlmoos, Nurul Alam, Malay K. Mridha

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Global review of nutrition interventions and programs affecting maternal and child health

The Lancet Nutrition Series

Nutrition is an uncared for aspect of maternal, new-born and child health. When the public health planners and practitioners call for specific actions to improve maternal and child survival-immunization, oral rehydration therapy, and treatment of infection etc top the list. In recent years, this set of responses has scaled up to integrate into the health systems. Somehow, nutrition remains sidelined, and yet we know that nutrition is a major risk factor for disease. What public health experts and policymakers have not done is to gather evidence about the importance of maternal and child nutrition, register the long term effects of undernutrition on development and health, identify evidence based interventions to reduce undernutrition, and call for national and international action to improve nutrition for mothers and children. The Lancet nutrition series aims to fill this gap in global public health and policy action. The MNI activities underpin the topics discussed in the lancet nutrition series.

Topics:

What works? Intervention for maternal and child undernutrition and survival The Lancet 2008; 371:417-440

Authors: Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tahmeed Ahmed, Robert E Black, Simon Cousens, Kathryn Dewey, Elsa Giugliani, Batool A Haider, Betty Kirkwood, Saul S Morris, H P S Sachdev, Meera Shekar, for the Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. Click here…..

Maternal and child undernutrition: effective action at national level The Lancet 2008; 371:510-526

Authors: Jennifer Bryce, Denise Coitinho, Ian darnton-Hill, David Pelletier, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, for the Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. Click here…..