Nutritional update: relevance to maternal and child health in East Africa

Nutritional update: relevance to maternal and child health in East Africa

In this review of recent advances in nutrition, we shall follow the 'life cycle' with special attention to maternal and foetal nutrition, linear growth, and nutritional assessment. We also consider nutrition, infection and micronutrients, and recent concepts of the pathophysiology and mana...

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Veröffentlicht in:African health sciences 2003-12, Vol.3 (3), p.136-143
1. Verfasser: Duggan, Maureen B
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Africa, Eastern - epidemiology
Body Weights and Measures
Bottle Feeding
Breast Feeding
Child
Child Welfare
CME
Female
Growth
Health Status Indicators
HIV Infections - complications
Humans
Male
Malnutrition - complications
Maternal Welfare
Micronutrients - physiology
Nutrition Assessment
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications - physiopathology
Pregnancy Complications - therapy
Pregnancy Outcome
Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - physiology
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Zusammenfassung:In this review of recent advances in nutrition, we shall follow the 'life cycle' with special attention to maternal and foetal nutrition, linear growth, and nutritional assessment. We also consider nutrition, infection and micronutrients, and recent concepts of the pathophysiology and management of protein energy malnutrition PEM.
ISSN:1680-6905
1729-0503