Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In 1988, the Food and Nutrition Board's Committee on Nutritional Status During Pregnancy and Lactation was constituted to reexamine important questions relating to nutritional care of pregnant and lactating women and their infants.
Synopsis
This book focuses on nutrition services beginning in the preconceptional period and extending well beyond birth. It provides the rationale for the recommended nutritional services; briefly describes the necessary elements of these services; and indicates the personnel, knowledge, skills, and specialized education or training that may be needed to deliver them.
It will be useful to policymakers, hospital administrators, directors of health centers, physicians in private or group practices, and others responsible for setting such standards and for overseeing health care services for expectant and new mothers and their infants.