ABSTRACT DIGEST ON MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION RESEARCH – ISSUE 32

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We are delighted to present the first issue of Abstract Digest for this year. It has a collection of articles on various outcomes, determinants and interventions related to maternal and child nutrition, from around the world and India, in particular. In this issue, we feature a special series on the double burden of malnutrition from The Lancet journals and three systematic reviews – 1. Micronutrient supplementation and fortification interventions and health and developmental outcomes; 2. Effectiveness of interventions for managing acute malnutrition among children below five years; and 3. Preventive interventions among adolescents.

In addition, there are two unique global articles relevant for multiple contexts – the first one generates lessons about nutrition behaviour change from cluster-randomized evaluations in three countries, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Ethiopia; and the second is based on research to improve nutrition in the context of an at-scale social protection program in Mexico, which has learnings for many developing countries. Given below is the list of articles included in this issue. Please click on the title if you wish to go straight to the article or download the Abstract Digest to explore further.

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List of articles in this issue

• Dynamics of the double burden of malnutrition and the changing nutrition reality

Popkin et al. 2019. The Lancet 395(10217): P65-74.

• The double burden of malnutrition: aetiological pathways and consequences for health   

Wells et al. 2019. The Lancet 395(10217): P75-88.

• Double-Duty Actions: Seizing Program and Policy Opportunities to Address Malnutrition in all its Forms

Hawkes et al. 2019. The Lancet 395(10218): P142-155.

• Economic effects of the double burden of malnutrition  

Nugent et al. 2020. The Lancet 395(10218): P156-164.

• Mapping child growth failure across low- and middle-income countries  

Kinyoki et al. 2020. Nature 577:231-234.

• Identifying geospatial patterns in wealth disparity in child malnutrition across 640 districts in India   

Liou et al. 2020. SSM - Population Health 10: 100524.

• Using structural equation modelling to untangle sanitation, water and hygiene pathways for intervention improvements in height-for-age in children <5 years old  

Reese et al. 2019. International Journal of Epidemiology 48(6): 1992–2000.

• Impact of early-onset persistent stunting on cognitive development at 5 years of age: Results from a multi-country cohort study

Alam et al. 2020. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227839.

• Community Determinants of Physical Growth and Cognitive Development among Indian Children in Early Childhood: A Multivariate Multilevel Analysis

Heo et al. 2020. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(1): 182.

• Micronutrient Supplementation and Fortification Interventions on Health and Development Outcomes among Children Under-Five in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Tam et al. 2020. Nutrients 12(2): 10.3390/nu12020289.

• Effectiveness of Interventions for Managing Acute Malnutrition in Children under Five Years of Age in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis    

Das et al. 2020. Nutrients 12(1): 10.3390/nu12010116.

• Effects of Preventive Nutrition Interventions among Adolescents on Health and Nutritional Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Salam et al. 2020. Nutrients 12(1): 10.3390/nu12010049.

• ICDS Striving for Holistic Development: Insights from a Field Study in Uttar Pradesh

Kumar, N. P. 2019. Economic & Political Weekly 54(48).

• Effects of a scalable home-visiting intervention on child development in slums of urban India: evidence from a randomised controlled trial  

Andrew et al. 2019. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

• Using mHealth to improve health care delivery in India: A qualitative examination of the perspectives of community health workers and beneficiaries

Gopalakrishnan et al. 2020. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227451.

• Lessons from using cluster-randomized evaluations to build evidence on large-scale nutrition behavior change interventions 

Menon et al. 2020. World Development 127: 104816.

• A Brief History of Evidence-Informed Decision Making for Nutrition in Mexico  

Neufeld et al. 2019. The Journal of Nutrition 149(Supplement_1): 2277S–2280S.