ABSTRACT DIGEST ON MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION RESEARCH – ISSUE 4

Highlights:

• Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition 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, one on the benefits of WASH interventions on linear growth among children under five, and one on the role of RUTF in relation to severe acute malnutrition.