Public Health Issues in Infant and Child Nutrition

by Black, Robert E.; Michaelsen, Kim Fleischer

• ISBN13: 9780781737517
• ISBN10: 0781737516
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS

Summary

Based on an international workshop held in St. Petersburg, Russia, this volume examines public health issues related to infant and child nutrition in developing, transitional, and industrialised countries. Chapters discuss the interaction between malnutrition and infectious diseases and the consequences and prevention of micronutrient deficiencies. Full consideration is given to interventions for promoting breast feeding and strategies for reducing HIV transmission through breast feeding. The contributors review various programs for improving complementary feeding and methods for preventing microbial contamination of complementary foods. Also included are discussions on the role of infant nutrition in preventing adult health problems such as obesity.

Table of Contents

Burden of Disease Caused by Childhood Undernutrition	1	(18)
A. L. Rice
A. Hyder
L. Caulfield
R. Stoltzfus
S. Fishman
C. Frangakis
R. E. Black
Childhood Infectious Diseases and Their Contribution to Undernutrition	19	(34)
A. H. Baqui
R. E. Black
Nutritional Influences on Child Development: Cross-National Perspectives	53	(18)
S. Grantham-McGregor
C. C. Ani
Preventing Vitamin A Deficiency: Translating Science to Action	71	(26)
K. P. West, Jr.
Consequences of Zinc Deficiency on Human Health and Alternatives for Programmatic Intervention	97	(14)
R. E. Black
Iron and Infectious Disease: A Public Health Problem?	111	(36)
S. J. Oppenheimer
Breast Feeding and HIV Transmission	147	(20)
A. Coutsoudis
Breast Feeding Babies: Is the Longer the Better?	167	(22)
L. T. Weaver
R. Elsom
Promotion of Breast Feeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT): A Cluster-Randomized Trial in the Republic of Belarus	189	(10)
M.S. Kramer
B. Chalmers
E. D. Hodnett
Z. Sevkovskaya
I. Dzikovich
S. Shapiro
J.-P. Collet
I. Vanilovich
I. Mezen
T. Ducruet
G. Shishko
V. Zubovich
D. Mknuik
E. Gluchanina
V. Dombrovskiy
A. Ustinovitch
T. Kot
N. Bogdanovich
L. Ovchinikova
E. Helsing
Success of Intervention Programs to Promote Complementary Feeding	199	(18)
K. G. Dewey
Microbial Contamination of Weaning Food and Water	217	(22)
C. F. Lanata
Options for Achieving Adequate Intake from Home-Prepared Complementary Foods in Low Income Countries	239	(18)
K. H. Brown
J. M. Peerson
J. E. Kimmons
C. Hotz
Early Exposures and Later Health and Development	257	(22)
R. Morley
T. Dwyer
Does an Excessive Protein Intake Early in Life Cause Health Problems Such as Obesity Later in Life?	279	(16)
K. F. Michaelsen
C. Hoppe
L. S.-Nielsen
C. Molgaard
Validating the Fetal Origins Hypothesis: An Epidemiologic Challenge	295	(22)
K. S. Joseph
Potential for Metabolic Imprinting by Nutritional Perturbation of Epigenetic Gene Regulation	317	(18)
R. A. Waterland
C. Garza
Concluding Discussion	335	(2)
K. F. Michaelsen
Subject Index	337