Michael S. Kramer, Ritsuko Kakuma
BACKGROUND: Although the health benefits of breastfeeding are widely acknowledged, opinions and recommendations are strongly divided on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding. Since 2001, the World Health Organization has recommended exclusive breastfeeding for six months. Much of the recen...
Mercedes de Onís, Adelheid W. Onyango, Elaine Borghi, Cutberto Garza et al.
OBJECTIVES: To compare growth patterns and estimates of malnutrition based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards ('the WHO standards') and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO international growth reference ('the NCHS reference'), and discuss implications for ...
Shams El Arifeen, Robert E. Black, Gretchen Antelman, Abdullah H Baqui et al.
OBJECTIVES: To describe breastfeeding practices and investigate the influence of exclusive breastfeeding in early infancy on the risk of infant deaths, especially those attributable to respiratory infections (ARI) and diarrhea. METHODS: A prospective observational study was conducted on a birth coho...
Richard D. Semba, Saskia de Pee, Kai Sun, Mayang Sari et al.
Background Child stunting is associated with poor child development and increased mortality. Our aim was to determine the effect of length of maternal and paternal education on stunting in children under the age of 5 years. Methods Data for indicators of child growth and of parental education and so...
Rukhsana Haider, Ann Ashworth, Iqbal Kabir, Sharon Huttly
Background Most mothers breastfeed in Bangladesh, but they rarely practise exclusive breastfeeding. Hospital-based strategies for breastfeeding promotion cannot reach them because about 95% have home deliveries. We postulated that with the intervention of trained peer counsellors, mothers could be e...
Jee Hyun Rah, Nasima Akhter, Richard D. Semba, Saskia de Pee et al.
Background/objectives Dietary diversity is associated with overall quality and nutrient adequacy of the diet in low-income countries. We determined the association between dietary diversity and stunting among children aged 6-59 months in rural Bangladesh. Subjects/methods In total, 165 111 under-fiv...
KH Nyqvist, GC Anderson, Nils Bergman, Adriano Cattaneo et al.
UNLABELLED: The hallmark of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is the kangaroo position: the infant is cared for skin-to-skin vertically between the mother's breasts and below her clothes, 24 h/day, with father/substitute(s) participating as KMC providers. Intermittent KMC (for short periods once or a few t...
Indu Sharma, Abbey Byrne
BACKGROUND: Early or timely initiation of breastfeeding is crucial in preventing newborn deaths and influences childhood nutrition however remains low in South Asia and the factors and barriers warrant greater consideration for improved action. This review synthesises the evidence on factors and bar...
Andrew D. Jones, Scott Ickes, Laura E. Smith, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya et al.
As the World Health Organization (WHO) infant and young child feeding (IYCF) indicators are increasingly adopted, a comparison of country-specific analyses of the indicators' associations with child growth is needed to examine the consistency of these relationships across contexts and to assess the ...
Kuntal Kumar Saha, Edward A. Frongillo, Dewan S Alam, Shams El Arifeen et al.
Background The World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund recommend a global strategy for feeding infants and young children for proper nutrition and health. Objective We evaluated the effects of following current infant feeding recommendations on the gr...
Aamer Imdad, Luke C. Mullany, Abdullah H Baqui, Shams El Arifeen et al.
BACKGROUND: There is an increased risk of serious neonatal infection arising through exposure of the umbilical cord to invasive pathogen in home and facility births where hygienic practices are difficult to achieve. The World Health Organization currently recommends 'dry cord care' because of insuff...
Upul Senarath, Kingsley Agho, Dure‐Samin Akram, Sanjeeva Godakandage et al.
Improving infant and young child feeding practices will help South Asian countries achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. This paper aims to compare key indicators of complementary feeding and their determinants in children aged 6-23 months across five South Asian count...
Muttaquina Hossain, Nuzhat Choudhury, Khaleda Adib Binte Abdullah, Prasenjit Mondal et al.
OBJECTIVE: We systematically evaluated health and nutrition programmes to identify context-specific interventional packages that might help to prioritise the implementation of programmes for reducing stunting in low and middle income countries (LMICs). METHODS: Electronic databases were used to syst...
Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Yvonne Forsell, Maigun Edhborg
BACKGROUND: There is a high prevalence of antepartum depression and low birth weight (LBW) in Bangladesh. In high- and low-income countries, prior evidence linking maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms with infant LBW is conflicting. There is no research on the association between maternal mental...
Kenneth H. Brown, Naheed Ahmed Akhtar, Alastair D. Robertson, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed
Longitudinal studies of the nutritional status of 60 lactating Bangladeshi mothers from an underprivileged, periurban community and of the quantity and composition of their milk were completed to determine the relationships between maternal nutritional status and lactational capacity. Daily milk pro...