POSHAN’S ABSTRACT DIGEST ON MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION RESEARCH – ISSUE 1

Source: Ray Witlin/World Bank

We are happy to introduce the POSHAN Abstract Digest, which brings to your fingertips some of the new and noteworthy studies on maternal and child nutrition. Edited by POSHAN co-directors, Dr. Purnima Menon and Dr. Suneetha Kadiyala, it will primarily focus on India-specific studies and also bring to you other relevant global or regional literature with broader implications for maternal and child nutrition.

The Abstract Digest is based on literature searches to identify selected studies that we think are most relevant to nutrition issues in India and to Indian programs and policies. We share with you a collection of abstracts from articles published in peer-reviewed journals; as well as selected non peer-reviewed articles by researchers in reputed academic and/or research institutions and which demonstrated rigor in their research objectives, methodology, and analysis. The abstracts in this document are reproduced in their original form from their source, and without editorial commentary. The Digest has four sections: special journal supplements, abstracts from individual peer-reviewed articles, abstracts of non peer-reviewed literature and upcoming events of interest.

The year 2012 brought a rich collection of academic literature on maternal and child nutrition to the scientific world, including six special issues published in different journals! This first issue of the Digest, therefore, features research publications spanning a broad spectrum of issues that relate to maternal and child nutrition - biological, epidemiological, social, economic, programmatic and political.

In the future we will be issuing Abstract Digests on a bi-monthly basis. We hope you find this useful and please feel free to forward this to others!

Click here to download: POSHAN Abstract Digest - Issue 1