ABSTRACT DIGEST ON MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION RESEARCH – ISSUE 36

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As India continues its dual battle – one against coronavirus pandemic and the second against malnutrition - this issue of Abstract Digest brings to you a collection of articles that are primarily India-focused and a few of them discuss measurement of outcomes and implications. Given below is the list of peer-reviewed articles in this issue on the outcomes, determinants and interventions pertaining to maternal and child nutrition.

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List of articles in this issue

• Tracking progress in anthropometric failure among children in India: A geospatial analysis  

Singh et al. 2020. Epidemiology 10(4).

•  Association does not imply prediction: the accuracy of birthweight in predicting child mortality and anthropometric failure  

Swaminathan et al. 2020. Annals of Epidemiology 50: 7-14.

•  A typology of dietary and anthropometric measures of nutritional need among children across districts and parliamentary constituencies in India, 2016  

Beckerman-Hsu et al. 2020. Journal of Global Health 10(2): 020424.

• Does the choice of metric matter for identifying areas for policy priority? An empirical assessment using child undernutrition in India  

Rajpal et al. 2020. Social Indicators Research.

• Is fatigue a cue to obtain iron supplements in Odisha, India? A mixed methods investigation     

Yilma et al. 2020. BMJ Open 10: e037471.

• Malnutrition and poverty in India: Does the use of public distribution system matter?     

Panda et al. 2020. BMC Nutrition 6(41).

• Effect of home-based newborn care on neonatal and infant mortality: A cluster randomised trial in India

Rasaily et al. 2020. BMJ Global Health 5(9).

• Costing and cost-effectiveness of a mobile health intervention (ImTeCHO) in improving infant mortality in tribal areas of Gujarat, India: Cluster randomized controlled trial

Modi et al. 2020.  JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 8(10): e17066.

• Counseling is a relationship not just a skill: Re-conceptualizing health behavior change communication by India’s accredited social health activists

Ved and Scott. 2020. Global Health: Science and Practice 8(3): 332-334.

• Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A systematic review of impact pathways to nutrition outcomes

Sharma et al. 2020. Advances in Nutrition: nmaa103.

• Urbanization and food consumption in India  

Pandey et al. 2020. Scientific Reports 10: 17241.

• Geo-mapping of COVID-19 risk correlates across districts and parliamentary constituencies in India

Subramanian et al. 2020. Harvard Data Science Review.

•  Lessons from COVID-19 pandemic for the child survival agenda

Subramanian et al. 2020. Journal of Global Health 10(2): 020357.