Health Care for Women International
Volume 37, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 964-978

Pregnancy diets, migration, and birth outcomes (Review)

D'Souza L.* , Jayaweera H. , Pickett K.E.
  • a Nuffield Health, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • b Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • c Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Abstract

Women in low- and middle-income countries are known to 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. © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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Index Keywords

female diet birth Infant Humans pregnant woman pregnancy Transients and Migrants Parturition ethnology pregnancy outcome human adult migrant migration Pregnant Women
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84948749388&doi=10.1080%2f07399332.2015.1102268&partnerID=40&md5=d63aeed27147aeeffe98699186658c02
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2015.1102268
ISSN: 07399332
Original Language: English