Nutrition Across Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Health Care : Focus on Low and Middle Income Countries / edited by Zohra S. Lassi, Rehana A. Salam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lassi, Zohra S.

Contributor:

Salam, Rehana A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing.

Nutrition.

Local Subjects:

Nursing.

Nutrition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book, led by experienced academic nurses and epidemiologists, involves an overview of the global nutrition epidemiology, risk factors, effective health and non-health sector interventions, success stories, insights, and work of nurse and allied health experts of the field, stressing on nutrition as one of the top priorities for women and children living in low and middle income countries (LMICs) specially in disadvantaged and underserved areas. The book focuses on nutritional epidemiology and transition in LMICs, and interventions to improve nutrition across the continuum of care for equitable access at each stage: reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) care. It also discusses the consequences of hidden hunger, climate change, and conflict on nutritional status of women and children and how best to integrate potentially effective cross-cutting strategies to counter these emerging challenges. It will appeal to nurses, academics and public health practitioners, but is also of interest to development partners, NGOs, Multilateral agencies and nutrition program implementers.

Contents:

Section I: Continuum of care for RMNCAH and role of nutrition

1. Nutrition's role in strengthening the RMNCAH Continuum of Care

Section II: Global Epidemiology and Risk factors

2. Preconception health and nutrition

3. Maternal and Child Nutrition in LMICs

4. Nutritional health of children under the age of five

5. Social Determinants of Health and Nutrition Among School-Age Children and Adolescents

6. Nutritional Challenges and Issues Relevant to Adolescents

Section III: Health sector interventions

7. Family Planning

8. Nutrition Intervention during Pregnancy and Lactation

9. Newborn nutrition

10. Nutritional intervention to overcome undernutrition among children and adolescents

11. Nutritional interventions among children and adolescents to prevent/treat overweight/obesity

Section IV: Non-health sectoral interventions

12. The Role of Education in Nutrition Promotion: Practices and Policy

13. The complementary role of social protection programs in tackling malnutrition

14. Food Security and Agriculture

15. Nutritional Empowerment through Food Fortification and Biofortification

16. Anthelminthics and WASH Interventions: Evidence and Gaps

17. Women's Empowerment and Nutritional Status

18. The Political Economy of Multi-Sectoral Programming of Adolescent Nutrition: Global Discourse and Emerging Lessons from Pakistan

Section V: Emerging challenges

19. Nutrition in conflict and humanitarian settings

20. Climate Change and Nutrition

21. Role of technologies in nutritional advances along the RMNCAH continuum of care

Section VI: Way forward

22. Conclusion and way forward.

ISBN:

3-031-95721-0