A recent report on nutrition and food security across the global population highlights that, despite the efforts of countries and international agencies, more than 2 billion people lack regular access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food. Therefore, the study of interventions and programs aimed at improving the nutritional status and health of mothers and their infants is a high priority in many settings.
In this month's Editorial, the Guest Editors for the accompanying PLOS Medicine Special Issue on Maternal and Child Health Nutrition—Lars Åke Persson, Kathleen M. Rasmussen and Huixia Yang—discuss the published research in the context of global priorities for women's and children's health.
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Editorial
Nutrition for women and children—Are we doing the right things in the right way?
PLOS Medicine: published August 27, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002906
Research Articles
Association of social contact with dementia and cognition: 28-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published August 2, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002862
Pregnancy after bariatric surgery and adverse perinatal outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
PLOS Medicine: published August 6, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002866
Neonatal, infant, and childhood growth following metformin versus insulin treatment for gestational diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
PLOS Medicine: published August 6, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002848
Impact of nutritional supplementation during pregnancy on antibody responses to diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in infants: A randomised trial in The Gambia
PLOS Medicine: published August 6, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002854
Appraising the role of previously reported risk factors in epithelial ovarian cancer risk: A Mendelian randomization analysis
PLOS Medicine: published August 7, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002893
Expectations of healthcare quality: A cross-sectional study of internet users in 12 low- and middle-income countries
PLOS Medicine: published August 7, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002879
Variation of all-cause and cause-specific mortality with body mass index in one million Swedish parent-son pairs: An instrumental variable analysis
PLOS Medicine: published August 9, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002868
A novel nutritional supplement to reduce plasma homocysteine in nonpregnant women: A randomised controlled trial in The Gambia
PLOS Medicine: published August 13, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002870
Early occupational intervention for people with low back pain in physically demanding jobs: A randomized clinical trial
PLOS Medicine: published August 16, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002898
Associations of fat mass and fat-free mass accretion in infancy with body composition and cardiometabolic risk markers at 5 years: The Ethiopian iABC birth cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published August 20, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002888
Development and implementation of a quality improvement toolkit, iron deficiency in pregnancy with maternal iron optimization (IRON MOM): A before-and-after study
PLOS Medicine: published August 20, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002867
An association between maternal weight change in the year before pregnancy and infant birth weight: ELFE, a French national birth cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published August 20, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002871
Assessing trends in the content of maternal and child care following a health system strengthening initiative in rural Madagascar: A longitudinal cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published August 20, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002869
Investigating causal pathways in severe falciparum malaria: A pooled retrospective analysis of clinical studies
PLOS Medicine: published August 23, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002858
Chronic physical conditions and risk for perinatal mental illness: A population-based retrospective cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published August 26, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002864
Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements into community-level screening for acute malnutrition: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Mali
PLOS Medicine: published August 27, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002892
Related Articles
Breastfeeding, HIV exposure, childhood obesity, and prehypertension: A South African cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published August 27, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002889
Impact of reduced dose of ready-to-use therapeutic foods in children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: A randomised non-inferiority trial in Burkina Faso
PLOS Medicine: published August 27, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002887
Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating a preventive nutrition package into facility-based screening for acute malnutrition during well-baby consultation: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso
PLOS Medicine: published August 27, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002877
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Corrections
Correction: How Prevalent Is Schizophrenia?
PLOS Medicine: published August 30, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002925
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Correction: Retention and viral suppression in a cohort of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: Regionally representative estimates using a multistage-sampling-based approach
PLOS Medicine: published August 30, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002918