Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and.pdf

Series Maternal and Child Nutrition 2 Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost? Zulfi qar A Bhutta, Jai K Das, Arjumand Rizvi, Michelle F Gaff ey, Neff Walker, Susan Horton, Patrick Webb, Anna Lartey, Robert E Black, The Lancet Nutrition Interventions Review Group, and the Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group Maternal undernutrition contributes to 800 000 neonatal deaths annually; stunting, wasting, and micronutrient Published Online defi ciencies are estimated to underlie nearly 3·1 million child deaths annually. Progress has been made with many June 6, 2013 interventions implemented at scale and the evidence for eff ectiveness of nutrition interventions and delivery strategies /10.1016/ S0140-6736(13)60996-4 has grown since The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition in 2008. We did a comprehensive update of This is the second in a Series of interventions to address undernutrition and micronutrient defi ciencies in women and children and used standard four papers about maternal and methods to assess emerging new evidence for delivery platforms. We modelled the eff ect on lives saved and cost of child