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The first 500 days of life: policies to support maternal nutrition

BACKGROUND: From conception to 6 months of age, an infant is entirely dependent for its nutrition on the mother: via the placenta and then ideally via exclusive breastfeeding. This period of 15 months – about 500 days – is the most important and vulnerable in a child's life: it must be protecte...

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Autores principales: Mason, John B., Shrimpton, Roger, Saldanha, Lisa S., Ramakrishnan, Usha, Victora, Cesar G., Girard, Amy Webb, McFarland, Deborah A., Martorell, Reynaldo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24909407
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23623