ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2018
Aiming higher for maternal and child nutrition in South Asia.
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- Pooled it
- Risk or associated factors of wasting among under-five children in Bangladesh: A systematic review.Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- High burden of hypovitaminosis D among the children and adolescents in South Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of preconception nutrition interventions on pregnancy and birth outcomes in South Asia: a systematic review.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2025Review
- Stunting and inequality in Sri Lanka compared with other low- and middle-income South Asian countries.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Monitoring and enforcement of Code-based legal measures to protect breastfeeding in South Asia: opportunities and bottlenecks.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Well-Being and Healthcare Inequality on Bulon-Don Island in Southern Thailand-Results of a Pre-Intervention Field Survey.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Birth weight mediates the association of maternal undernutrition with child undernutrition prevalence in West Africa.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Evaluating preschool linear growth velocities: an interim reference illustrated in Nepal.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Review
- When social identities intersect: understanding inequities in growth outcomes by religion- caste and religion-tribe as intersecting strata of social hierarchy for Muslim and Hindu children in India.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Right message, right medium, right time: powering counseling to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition in South Asia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Law matters - assessment of country-level code implementation and sales of breastmilk substitutes in South Asia.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Storytelling for persuasion: Insights from community health workers on how they engage family members to improve adoption of recommended maternal nutrition and breastfeeding behaviours in rural Bangladesh.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- What stops us from eating: a qualitative investigation of dietary barriers during pregnancy in Punjab, Pakistan.Public health nutrition · 2022Article
- Assessment of regional networks on nutrition in South Asia: a multi-methods study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Unequal coverage of nutrition and health interventions for women and children in seven countries.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2022Article
- Nutrition in Nepal: Three decades of commitment to children and women.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- Anaemia among mother-father-child pairs in India: examining co-existence of triple burden of anaemia in a family.BMC public health · 2021Article
- The quality of maternal nutrition and infant feeding counselling during antenatal care in South Asia.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
The sustainable development of nations relies on children developing to their full potential and leading healthy, productive, and prosperous lives. Poor nutrition in early life threatens the growth and development of children, especially so in South Asia, which has the highest burdens of stunting, wasting, and anaemia in the world. Targeted actions to reduce stunting and other forms of child malnutrition in South Asia should be informed by an understanding of what drives poor nutrition in children, who is most affected, and effective programme approaches. To this end, the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia commissioned a series of papers in 2016-2017 to fill knowledge gaps in the current body of evidence on maternal and child nutrition in South Asia, including analyses of: (a) the links between anthropometric failure in children and child development; (b) the time trends, current distribution, disparities and inequities of child stunting, wasting and anaemia, and their direct and underlying causes, including maternal anaemia, low birth weight, breastfeeding, and complementary feeding; (c) policy and programme actions to increase the coverage of nutrition interventions during pregnancy, improve breastfeeding practices, and care for severely wasted children. This overview paper summarizes the evidence from these analyses and examines the implications for the direction of future advocacy, policy, and programme actions to improve maternal and child nutrition in South Asia.
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