Pregnancy Diets, Migration, and Birth Outcomes

Lalitha D'Souza; Hiranthi Jayaweera; Kate E Pickett

doi:10.1080/07399332.2015.1102268

Pregnancy Diets, Migration, and Birth Outcomes

Lalitha D'Souza, Hiranthi Jayaweera, Kate E Pickett

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Abstract

Women in low and middle income countries are known make changes to their diets during pregnancy. We set out to explore the subject of traditional pregnancy diets with a view to finding out if migrant women follow these practices, and if such information might help explain differences in birth outcomes between migrant women and destination country born women. This review found that traditional pregnancy diets vary from region to region, that migrant women may follow some of these practices, and that there is a dearth of studies looking into the impact of pregnancy diets on birth outcomes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-27
Number of pages	27
Journal	Health care for women international
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2015.1102268
Publication status	Published - 22 Oct 2015

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