ABSTRACT DIGEST ON MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION RESEARCH – ISSUE 33

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This issue of Abstract Digest comes to you at an unprecedented time of COVID-19 pandemic. We hope all of you are healthy and safe. In the current issue, Naja and Hamadeh present a framework for action at multiple levels to maintain optimal nutrition during COVID-19, at the individual, community, national and global levels. Along with it, this issue has a collection of articles on various outcomes, determinants and interventions related to maternal and child nutrition.

There are articles and related correspondence from a special issue of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on the topic of micronutrient supplementation. There are articles from the March issue of EClinicalMedicine, published by The Lancet, that focus on the subject of women’s empowerment in the context of addressing malnutrition. This issue also includes a WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission that presents the case for placing children, aged 0–18 years, at the centre of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the key findings of the 2020 edition of the Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates, by UNICEF-WHO-World Bank.

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

• Nutrition amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-level framework for action

Naja and Hamadeh. 2020. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

• A future for the world’s children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission

Clark et al. 2020. The Lancet 395(10224): 605-658.

• Setting research priorities on multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy

Gomes et al. 2020. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1465: 76-88.

• Association of Maternal History of Neonatal Death With Subsequent Neonatal Death in India

Kapoor et al. 2020. JAMA Network Open 3(4): e202887.

• Reconsidering the “Thin-Fat” Indian Neonate

Wells, J.C. 2020. The Journal of Nutrition 150(4): 658–660.

Corresponding article

The Thin But Fat Phenotype is Uncommon at Birth in Indian Babies

Kuriyan et al. 2020. The Journal of Nutrition 150(4): 826–832.

• Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: a global analysis

Hirvonen et al. 2020. The Lancet Global Health 8(1): e59-e66.

• First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries  

Choudhury et al. 2019. Food Policy 88: 101762.

• Review of the evidence regarding the use of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Bourassa et al. 2019. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1444: 6-21.

Letter related to this article

Antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation: where are the long‐term benefits?

Devakumar et al. 2020. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1465: 8-9.

Response to Devakumar et al.

Antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation: call to action for change in recommendation

Bourassa et al. 2020. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1465: 5-7.

• Preconception nutrition intervention improved birth length and reduced stunting and wasting in newborns in South Asia: The Women First Randomized Controlled Trial  

Dhaded et al. 2020. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0218960.

• Long-term trend in socioeconomic inequalities and geographic variation in the utilization of antenatal care service in India between 1998 and 2015

Lee et al. 2020. Health Services Research.

• Access to women physicians and uptake of reproductive, maternal and child health services in India    

Bhan et al. 2020. EClinicalMedicine 20: 100309.

• Coaching Intensity, Adherence to Essential Birth Practices, and Health Outcomes in the BetterBirth Trial in Utter Pradesh, India   

Barnhart et al. 2020. Global Health: Science and Practice 8(1).

• Impact of an integrated nutrition, health, water sanitation and hygiene, psychosocial care and support intervention package delivered during the pre- and peri-conception period and/or during pregnancy and early childhood on linear growth of infants in the first two years of life, birth outcomes and nutritional status of mothers: study protocol of a factorial, individually randomized controlled trial in India

Taneja et al. 2020. Trials 21(127).

• How can we realise the full potential of health systems for nutrition? 

Heidkamp et al. 2020. The British Medical Journal 368: l6911.

• Group-based programs to improve health outcomes in India: An accumulating body of evidence but questions remain

Menon and Kumar. 2020. EClinicalMedicine 18: 100234.

Original article

Effects of health behaviour change intervention through women's self-help groups on maternal and newborn health practices and related inequalities in rural india: A quasi-experimental study

Hazra et al. 2019. EClinicalMedicine 18: 100198.