Nutrition for women and children-Are we doing the right things in the right way?

Lars Åke Persson; Kathleen M Rasmussen; Huixia Yang

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002906

Nutrition for women and children-Are we doing the right things in the right way?

PLoS Med. 2019 Aug 27;16(8):e1002906. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002906. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Authors

Lars Åke Persson^{1

2}, Kathleen M Rasmussen³, Huixia Yang⁴

Affiliations

¹ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
² Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³ Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.

Abstract

The Guest Editors for the PLOS Medicine Special Issue on Maternal and Child Health & Nutrition discuss the published research in the context of global priorities for women's and children's health.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

Child
Child Nutrition Disorders / epidemiology
Child Nutrition Disorders / prevention & control
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena*
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena*
Pregnancy

Grants and funding

The authors received no funding for this work.