Research has shown that optimum maternal and child nutrition can
reduce the incidence of chronic conditions ranging from obesity,
food allergy and asthma, to cardiovascular disease and
cancers.
This exciting book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Victoria Hall Moran
and with a foreword from Gretel Pelto, explores in an integrated
context the varied factors associated with infant and child
nutrition, including global feeding strategies, cultural factors,
issues influencing breastfeeding, and economic and life cycle
influences. Carefully drawn together and edited, recognising the
many complexities and challenges that face practitioners working in
the field, this landmark publication offers practical suggestions
in this vitally important subject.
Infant and Young Child Feeding:
* Offers crucial insights into implementation of a Global
Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
* Illuminates the complex challenges for nutritionists,
dieticians and other health and social care professionals in
implementing international guidelines within local cultural
settings
* Includes contributions from leading international experts in
the field
All libraries in universities, medical schools and research
establishments where nutrition and dietetics, midwifery, medicine,
nursing, health studies and social sciences are studied and taught
should have copies of this crucially important book on their
shelves.
Tabella dei contenuti
Contributor biographies.
Foreword by Gretel H. Pelto.
1 From Grand Design to Change on the Ground: Going to Scale with a Global Feeding Strategy.
2 A Biocultural Basis for Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding.
3 Feeding Preterm Infants in Sweden: Challenges to Implementing the Global Strategy in a Pro-Breastfeeding Culture.
4 From ‘to Learn’ to ‘To Know’: Women’s Embodied Knowledge of Breastfeeding in Japan.
5 Breastfeeding and Poverty: Negotiating Cultural Change and Symbolic Capital of Motherhood in Québec, Canada.
6 Achieving Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices: Case Studies from Tanzania and Rwanda.
7 Bodies in the Making: Reflections on Women’s Consumption Practices in Pregnancy.
8 Homeless Mothers and Their Children: Two Generations at Nutritional Risk.
9 Lifecycle Influences and Opportunities for Change.
10 Use of Economics to Analyse Policies to Promote Breastfeeding.
11 Complex Challenges to Implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.
Index.
Circa l’autore
Fiona Dykes is Professor of Maternal and Infant Health and Director of the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN) at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. and Victoria Hall Moran is a Senior Lecturer in MAINN and Editor-in-Chief of Maternal and Child Nutrition.
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