POSHAN’S ABSTRACT DIGEST ON MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION RESEARCH-ISSUE 4

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POSHAN releases the fourth issue of the Abstract Digest! This issue highlights the following new nutrition research:

-The recently-released Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition that revisits the global burden of maternal and child nutrition after the last Series was published 5 years ago. The Series updates the contribution of undernutrition to child morbidity and mortality, highlights the roles of nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions, and provides insights into issues related to the political economy of nutrition.

- Three multi-country studies on the importance of preterm and small-for-gestational age on the risk of mortality and linear growth beyond the neonatal period.

-Three systematic reviews, one on the effect of daily iron supplementation among 4-23 months children on anemia, another on the benefits of WASH interventions on linear growth among children under five, and the third on the role of RUTF in relation to severe acute malnutrition.

-Several individual studies on nutrition in India, and other interesting pieces of research.

Click here to download: POSHAN Abstract Digest Issue #4 2013

Those of you who have not yet read the earlier issues, here is the complete series of Abstract Digest