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ToolsChanchani, Devanshi (2019) Maternal and child nutrition in rural Chhattisgarh: The role of health beliefs and practices. Anthropology and Medicine, 26 (2). pp. 142-158. ISSN 1364-8470
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Abstract
From research in central Chhattisgarh, this paper interprets the bearing that healthcare beliefs and practices may have in shaping maternal and child nutrition both in the light of biomedical recommendations and within the context and constraints of a rural village setting. It contends that health beliefs and practices that are at variance from biomedical recommendations appear to have few consequences for gestational nutrition and for child health in relation to pregnancy. In the postpartum however, health ideas at variance from biomedical recommendations appear to have an important bearing on maternal nutrition and infant feeding, and may put mothers and children at risk of nutritional deficiency. Maternal ‘eating down’ following a surgical procedure such as a caesarean delivery or tubectomy is especially noteworthy, since food intake quantity is reduced over an extended time frame. While caring practices are influenced by cultural formulations, they also reflect, perhaps, adaptations to health risks.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | culture,reproduction,nutrition,infant feeding,poverty,health beliefs,india,chhattisgarh,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2017 08:17 |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2023 00:12 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64330 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13648470.2017.1361654 |
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