ABSTRACT DIGEST ON MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION RESEARCH – ISSUE 35

This issue of Abstract Digest brings to you a set of interesting articles on stunting burden, drivers, and learnings from countries that have been successful in reducing stunting, including a case study on Chhattisgarh.  In addition, there are studies on anthropometric data quality assessment, and a study describing the health system components required for the delivery of nutrition-specific interventions. This issue also includes studies on COVID-19 and its implications for child nutrition.

In this edition, we have included a Call for Action issued by leaders of four UN agencies to protect children's right to nutrition in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. In India, a diverse group of nutrition stakeholders have pledged their renewed Commitment to Action  for supporting efforts by the government and all of society.

We would like to  highlight that  we, along with 19 partners, are preparing to co-host the third India-focused implementation research conference on “Delivering for Nutrition in India: Insights from Implementation Research”. This virtual event will include theme-based sessions convene academics, implementers, development partners, and policy makers from multiple institutes on a common platform to deliberate on selected research studies and implementation experiences focused on the core pillars of POSHAN Abhiyaan, India’s National Nutrition Mission, and platforms supporting actions for nutrition. The conference program features 3 outstanding plenary lectures with global and local experts, and 12 thematic sessions based on selected and poster presentations, social hangouts and panels with policymakers and research funders.  We invite our readers to REGISTER and participate in this event.

Given below is the list of peer-reviewed articles. Please click on the title if you wish to go straight to the article or download the Abstract Digest to explore further.

Stay safe and enjoy reading!

List of articles in this issue

• Review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) based on current evidence  

Wang et al. 2020. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 55(6): 105948.

• Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality

Headey et al. 2020. The Lancet.

• Child malnutrition and COVID-19: the time to act is now

Fore et al. 2020. The Lancet.

• Stunting among Preschool Children in India: Temporal Analysis of Age-Specific Wealth Inequalities

Rajpal et al. 2020. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(13): 4702.

• Stunting in childhood: an overview of global burden, trends, determinants, and drivers of decline

Vaivada et al. 2020. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

• How countries can reduce child stunting at scale: lessons from exemplar countries    

Bhutta et al. 2020. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. nqaa153.

• The role of the state government, civil society and programmes across sectors in stunting reduction in Chhattisgarh, India, 2006–2016  

Kohli et al. 2020. BMJ Global Health 5(7).

• Antenatal Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation Is Associated with Improved Linear Growth and Reduced Risk of Stunting or Severe Stunting in South Asian Children Less than Two Years of Age: A Pooled Analysis from Seven Countries

Nisar et al. 2020. Nutrients 12 (9): 10.3390/nu12092632.

• The Impact of Nutrition-Specific and Nutrition-Sensitive Interventions on Hemoglobin Concentrations and Anemia: A Meta-review of Systematic Reviews

Moorthy et al. 2020. Advances in Nutrition.

• Dietary Variation among Children Meeting and Not Meeting Minimum Dietary Diversity: An Empirical Investigation of Food Group Consumption Patterns among 73,036 Children in India

Beckerman-Hsu et al. 2020. The Journal of Nutrition nxaa223.

• High Coverage and Low Utilization of the Double Fortified Salt Program in Uttar Pradesh, India: Implications for Program Implementation and Evaluation   

Cyriac et al. 2020. Current Developments in Nutrition: nzaa133.

• Making the health system work for the delivery of nutrition interventions  

King et al. 2020. Maternal & Child Nutrition.

• Anthropometric data quality assessment in multisurvey studies of child growth

Perumal et al. 2020. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition nqaa162.

• Anthropometric data quality assessment in multisurvey studies of child growth: A comparison of the Indian diet with the EAT-Lancet reference diet

Sharma et al. 2020.  BMC Public Health 20: 812.

• Building Implementation Science in Nutrition

Warren et al. 2020. Advances in Nutrition nmaa066.

• Identifying spatial variation in the burden of diabetes among women across 640 districts in India: a cross-sectional study

Singh et al. 2020. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders.