Pregnancy diets, migration, and birth outcomes.
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.
a Nuffield Health , Surrey , UK.
Lalitha
L
D'Souza
b Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford , Oxford , UK.
Hiranthi
H
Jayaweera
c Department of Health Sciences , University of York , York , UK.
Kate E
KE
Pickett
D000328:Adult; D004032:Diet / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D036801:Parturition; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D037841:Pregnant People / Q000208:ethnology*; D014171:Transients and Migrants