Effect of maternal mental health on infant growth in low income countries: new evidence from South Asia.

Vikram Patel; Atif Rahman; KS Jacob; Marcus Hughes; (2004) Effect of maternal mental health on infant growth in low income countries: new evidence from South Asia. BMJ, 328 (7443). pp. 820-823. ISSN 1468-5833 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.328.7443.820

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Impaired infant growth, a major problem in South Asia, may require interventions to improve maternal mental health in addition to current interventions targeting infant nutrition

Item Type	Article
Keywords	Randomized controlled-trial, failure-to-thrive, postnatal, depression, postpartum depression, mothers, children, risk, intervention, childbirth, community, Asia, epidemiology, Biomedical Research, Child, Depression, Postpartum, epidemiology, Failure to Thrive, epidemiology, etiology, Female, Human, Poverty, Prevalence, Risk Factors, Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
ISI	220749400024