Maternal and Child Nutrition
Maternal and Child Nutrition , For a neonate, mother’s milk is the best nutrition which they can get. Hence, breastfeeding becomes an important part of the diet for the child’s proper growth. Mother’s milk has such nutrition which even the baby food fed as a supplement to mother’s milk cannot provide. Even still breastfeeding is recommended up to 6 months of age. After 6-24 months they must be fed with “complementary food” since after 6 months of age, the milk alone is not sufficient for the child. Malnutrition due to negligence to diet during this period of growth can be very difficult to reverse.
Sub-Track:
- Health economics including cost-effectiveness studies
- Behavior change
- Physiological, sociocultural, psychological, economic and political aspects of nutrition
- Nutritional needs of mothers and their children in health and disease
- Health Improvement
- Health education
- Health policy and assessment in practice
- Inter-agency initiatives
- Food safety and related environmental and regulatory issues
- Nutritional risk assessment