Maternal and infant nutrition reviews : Bangladesh : a guide to the literature

The subjects are arranged as follows: (1) nutrition and health status in general, among pregnant and lactating women, and among infants aged 0-6 and 6-24 months; (2) dietary beliefs about pregnancy, lactation, breast milk substitutes, weaning, and illness and cure; (3) maternal/child dietary practices and health and medicine practices; (4) the correlation of nutritional status with other socioeconomic variables; (5) and nutrition and health policies and programs. An introductory overview notes that 20% of all children die before the age of 2; that 17,000 children a year go blind due to vitamin A deficiency; and that a 1975-76 survey showed that 86% of children suffer moderate to severe malnutrition. Brief commentaries on nutrition-related issues, a 49-item annotated bibliography (1975-82), 13 other references (1974-80), and a table of locations studied are appended.