Sökning: "Infant nutrition"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 43 avhandlingar innehållade orden Infant nutrition.
1. HIV and Infant Feeding : Operational Challenges of Achieving Safe Infant Feeding Practices
Sammanfattning : This thesis assesses the uptake of the national Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme in South Africa, and the challenges of achieving safe infant feeding practices in the context of HIV. The research studies contained in this thesis utilised a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to provide a full understanding of the challenges of moving from efficacy to effectiveness in PMTCT programmes. LÄS MER
2. The impact of nutrition on growth, biomarkers, and health outcomes in preterm infants
Sammanfattning : Introduction: Nutrients play a crucial role for growth and brain development after preterm birth. Meeting the nutritional needs of preterm infants is challenging. Particularly, the most immature infants have a high risk of malnutrition and poor growth during hospital care. LÄS MER
3. Complementary feeding based on Nordic foods : effects on nutrient intake, growth, biomarkers and eating behavior
Sammanfattning : Background: Early nutrition is fundamental to growth and development. Infants develop long lasting food preferences very early in life from food exposures when the brain is impressionable and sensory pathways are receptive. LÄS MER
4. Nutrition in infancy - Clinical studies on dietary intake, metabolism and growth
Sammanfattning : Nutrition in infancy - Clinical studies on dietary intake, metabolism and growth Our aims were to try to determine an appropriate formula protein concentration to be used during the second half of infancy and to evaluate the effects on plasma lipids when breast milk was exchanged for formula and/or weaning foods. Both aspects were studied with special regard to the influence of traditional weaning foods. LÄS MER
5. Child nutrition in rural Nicaragua : Population-based studies in a transitional society
Sammanfattning : Emerging favourable as well as unfavourable nutrition patterns are observed in societies undergoing rapid social and economic change. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the associations between household and maternal resources and infant and young child feeding habits and nutritional status in rural Nicaragua, a low-income transitional society. LÄS MER