What Works to Improve Nutrition and Food Sustainability across the First 2000 Days of Life: A Rapid Review.

ABSTRACT: Informed by the Innocenti framework, this rapid review of systematic reviews (n = 60) and sentinel grey literature (n = 27) synthesises the evidence of what works to improve nutrition and food sustainability across the first 2000 days. Most systematic reviews focused on interventions targeting the behaviour of parents and caregivers (n = 49), with fewer reviews focusing on the personal (n = 7) and external (n = 4) food environments. No reviews focused on food supply-chain activities. Most reviews were rated as critically low (n = 28, 47%) or low (n = 21, 35%) quality using AMSTAR 2. Evidence supports the effectiveness of multi-component breastfeeding interventions, interventions delivered in home and child-care settings, particularly when involving parents, interactive skill building and r

SUBMITTER: Laws R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8878998 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature