POSHAN’S ABSTRACT DIGEST ON MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION RESEARCH – ISSUE 2

Woman with her child. India. Source: flickr (John Isaac / World Bank)

Thank you all for the overwhelming response to our first issue of the Abstract Digest! We are happy share with you our second issue of the Abstract Digest. Dr. Rasmi Avula led the literature review for this digest, with research assistance from Kavita Singh.

In the last two months, we have identified several exciting publications investigating global and national trends in child growth and mortality and impacts of micronutrient supplementation on overcoming micronutrient deficiencies and mortality. The findings from these global studies suggest the importance of maternal height on children’s linear growth at multiple stages of development and heightened risk for mortality among children with multiple anthropometric deficits. While one India-based efficacy study lends support to directly supervised iron and folic supple-mentation to improve hemoglobin status among mild to moderately anaemic pre-school children, another study features its decade long program experience for the control of anemia among adolescent girls. Finally, new evidence from the DEVTA trial suggests only a modest effect of Vitamin A supplementation on mortality and little effect of population-level deworming among pre-school children on mortality.

We hope you find this compilation of different types of studies informative and interesting, and look forward to any comments you might have!

Click here to download: POSHAN Abstract Digest - Issue 2