Maternal & Child Nutrition

Edited by:
Peter Aggett and Victoria Hall Moran

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 39/78 Nutrition & Dietetics
Impact Factor: 1.277

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Maternal & Child Nutrition addresses fundamental aspects of nutrition as well as new initiatives, latest research and innovation in all aspects of practice and policy that impinge on nutrition and its outcomes in women and their children, both in early and later life.  Its scope includes pre-conceptual, antenatal and postnatal maternal nutrition, women's nutrition throughout their reproductive years, and fetal, neonatal, infant, child and adolescent nutrition and their effects throughout life.  Topics covered include:  

• Nutritional needs of mothers and their children in health and disease
• Physiological, sociocultural, psychological, economic and political aspects of nutrition
• Health Improvement
• Health education
• Health policy and assessment in practice
• Inter-agency initiatives
• Food safety and related environmental and regulatory issues
• Nutritional risk assessment
• Evaluation of interventions aimed at improving health
• The role of nutrition in both healthy and vulnerable groups
• Development of research methods, validation of measures

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Announcing the Maternal and Child Nutrition Special Issue: Strategies and Interventions in Public Health Nutrition

All content available FREE online

Editorial
Mainstreaming interventions in the health sector to address maternal and child undernutrition
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Meera Shekar and Tahmeed Ahmed

Review articles
Mainstreaming nutrition into maternal and child health programmes: scaling up of exclusive breastfeeding
Nita Bhanadri, A.K.M. Iqbal Kabir and Mohammed Abdus Salam

Systematic review of the efficacy and effectiveness of complementary feeding interventions in developing countries
Kathryn G. Dewey and Seth Adu-Afarwuah

Growth monitoring and promotion: review of evidence of impact
Ann Ashworth, Roger Shrimpton and Kazi Jamil

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

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