INFANT- AND YOUNG CHILD-FEEDING PRACTICES IN MONGOLIA

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies.

Infant and Young Child Feeding Status in Iran Compared the Different United Nation Regions

Promote and support breastfeeding is an essential element for the health and development of infants so that, it introduced as most cost-effective intervention to reduce infant mortality in developing countries (1). Breastfeeding has an important role to ensure food security for maintain a healthy and productive life for a large proportion of babies in the world, in addition, it is associated wi...

Mothers’ Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices and Their Determinants in Amhara and Oromia Regions

A situational review of infant and young child feeding practices and interventions in Viet Nam.

Sub-optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices are likely a significant contributor to high undernutrition rates in Viet Nam. To date, however, there has been no comprehensive review of IYCF practices in Viet Nam. The objectives of this paper were to review: 1) patterns/trends in IYCF in Viet Nam; 2) the barriers and facilitators to IYCF practices; and 3) interventions and policies...