Overview

Maternal & Child Nutrition addresses fundamental aspects of nutrition and its outcomes in women and their children, both in early and later life, and keeps its audience fully informed about new initiatives, the latest research findings and innovative ways of responding to changes in public attitudes and policy. Drawing from global sources, the Journal provides an invaluable source of up to date information for health professionals, academics and service users with interests in maternal and child nutrition. Its scope includes pre-conception, antenatal and postnatal maternal nutrition, women's nutrition throughout their reproductive years, and fetal, neonatal, infant, child and adolescent nutrition and their effects throughout life. Topics covered include:

  • Physiological, sociocultural, psychological, economic and political aspects of nutrition

  • Design, implementation and evaluation of maternal-child public health nutrition policies and interventions

  • Health inequities and social determinants of health, including food insecurity

  • Health economics including cost-effectiveness studies

  • Behaviour change

  • Nutritional needs of mothers and their children in health and disease

  • Nutritional risk assessment

  • Development of valid research and evaluation methods

 

Keywords

nutrition, maternal, child, paediatrics, pediatrics, infant, baby, neonate, food, dietetics, obstetrics, midwifery, health

 

Abstracting and Indexing Information

 

  • Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases (CABI)
  • Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing)
  • CAB Abstracts® (CABI)
  • Current Contents: Clinical Medicine (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Dairy Science Abstracts (CABI)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • Embase (Elsevier)
  • Food Science & Technology Abstracts™ (IFIS)
  • Global Health (CABI)
  • Helminthological Abstracts (CABI)
  • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Maize Abstracts (CABI)
  • MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)
  • Nutrition Abstracts & Reviews Series A: Human & Experimental (CABI)
  • Pig News & Information (CABI)
  • Potato Abstracts (CABI)
  • Poultry Abstracts (CABI)
  • Protozoological Abstracts (CABI)
  • Review of Aromatic & Medicinal Plants (CABI)
  • Review of Medical & Veterinary Entomology (CABI)
  • Rice Abstracts (CABI)
  • Rural Development Abstracts (CABI)
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
  • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
  • Soybean Abstracts Online (CABI)
  • Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI)
  • World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts (CABI)
Maternal and Child Nutrition deposits all articles in PMC (PubMed Central)