Strengthening maternal nutrition counselling during routine health services: a gap analysis to guide country programmes.
Justine A KavlePublished in: Public health nutrition (2022)
Strengthening the integration of maternal nutrition counselling into pre- and in-service curricula, routine health provider training, supportive supervision and provider mentoring is needed. Future efforts may consider generating global and regional weight gain guidelines and incorporating maternal nutrition counselling indicators as part of quality-of-care ANC/PNC standards and routine health systems.
Keyphrases
- birth weight
- weight gain
- clinical practice
- healthcare
- physical activity
- gestational age
- body mass index
- quality improvement
- primary care
- mental health
- pregnancy outcomes
- smoking cessation
- hiv testing
- public health
- palliative care
- weight loss
- men who have sex with men
- pregnant women
- social media
- virtual reality
- human health