POSHAN’s abstract digest on maternal and child nutrition research – Issue 16

Download or read book POSHAN’s abstract digest on maternal and child nutrition research – Issue 16 written by Avula, Rasmi and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of the Abstract Digest features our new Policy Note, summarizing costs of delivering a set of essential nutrition interventions at scale in India. We also bring to you the new WHO guidelines for improving the quality of maternal and newborn health and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, two Alive & Thrive studies on IYCF, work on the performance of anganwadis under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), models for the management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and studies on ICDS and health programs that deliver the essential nutrition interventions in India.