Functional integration of services during the antenatal period can potentially improve childhood growth parameters beyond infancy: findings from a post-interventional follow-up study in West Bengal, India
These results indicate that functional integration and strengthening of routine antenatal care services including targeted nutritional counselling to expectant mothers can have distal beneficial effects on childhood undernutrition beyond the immediate post-natal period.
Authors
- Meghendra Banerjee
- Ipsita Bhattacharjee
- Kassandra Fate
- Shivani Kachwaha
- Sreeparna Ghosh Mukherjee
- Anita Shet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7204-8164)
- Aastha Kant (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3684-008X)
- Kayur Mehta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9678-6698)
- Tushara Rajeev
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Child In Need Institute (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Nutrition
- Published
- 2024-08-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-024-00918-x
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.62