Maternal and Child Nutrition

Maternal and Child Nutrition

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Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Maternal and Child Nutrition will take an integrated approach to nutrition
issues relating to a range of health professions, such as general practice,
paediatrics, obstetrics, neonatology, midwifery, health visiting, dietetics
and nutritionists. 

The Journal will present high quality current research in maternal and child
nutrition, providing a forum that will integrate the nutritional aspects
relevant to all sectors of health care, health promotion and preventative
medicine. It will also support and foster an integrative inter-disciplinary
and inter-agency approach to issues of maternal and child nutrition
antenatally and up to and including adolescence.

Topics covered will encompass pre-conceptual nutrition, antenatal and
postnatal maternal nutrition, neonatal nutrition, infant and child
nutrition. An inter-disciplinary and international approach will be
fostered, attracting a worldwide audience. Papers published with include the
following subject areas:
    * Nutritional needs of mothers and their children in health and illness
    * Physiological, socio-cultural, psychological economic and political
aspects of the nutrition of mothers and their infants
    * Related aspects of the food chain and environmental health
    * Health promotion
    * Health education
    * Health policy and assessment in practice
    * Inter-agency initiatives and programmes
    * Consideration of United Nations and other organisations' activities
    * Food safety, and related environmental and regulatory issues
    * Discussions of foods for specific medical purposes
    * Food and drink in health promoting
    * Studies relating nutrition to health or disease risk in mothers and
infants
    * Evaluation of effectiveness of intervention studies aimed at improving
health
    * Role of nutrition in healthy groups and in high risk and vulnerable
groups
    * Development of research methods, validation of measures
    * Reviews of key topics.

Print ISSN: 1740-8695
Online ISSN: 1740-8709

Dr Victoria Hall Moran
Editorial Office Maternal and Child Nutrition
Department of Midwifery Studies
Faculty of Health 
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1772 893830
Fax: +44 (0) 1772 892914
Email: mcnjournal@uclan.ac.uk

Content available by subscription.

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Current Issue: Forthcoming

Date: 7 June 2004