A call for joined-up action to promote nutrition across the first 2000 days of life using a food systems approach.

Introduction: Nutrition across the first 2000 days of life, from conception to age five, is considered critical in shaping lifelong nutrition and health outcomes, with dietary patterns tracking from infancy into later childhood and adulthood. Identifying potential policy, programmatic, and research opportunities is essential to inform action in this area.

Objectives: This research was undertaken to provide an overview of the evidence support, policy mechanisms and stakeholder perspectives on opportunities for improving nutrition across the first 2000 days of life to guide future investments and to inform policy dialogues with relevant government, non-government and external agencies within the state of Victoria, Australia.

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

Informed by the Innocenti framework, this rapid review of systematic reviews ( = 60) and sentinel grey literature ( = 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 ( = 49), with fewer reviews focusing on the personal ( = 7) and external ( = 4) food environments. No reviews focused on food supply-chain activities.

Vasectomy interest and awareness among patients and their partners in prenatal clinics in the United States.

Objective: Although vasectomy is safer, more effective and less expensive than tubal ligation, rates of permanent contraception are consistently higher in women than in men. We sought to explore vasectomy interest and awareness in patients and their partners during prenatal visits, a time when contraceptive counselling is typically performed.

Methods: Anonymous surveys were distributed between January and July 2019 to a cross-sectional, convenience sample of pregnant women and their partners, if available, presenting for outpatient prenatal care at two hospitals (one public, one private) serving different patient populations in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Pregnancy: The Experience at an Urban Safety Net Hospital.

Shortly after the identification of a novel coronavirus, the coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, a global pandemic was declared. There have been conflicting data about the severity of COVID-19 disease course in pregnant women, with most US data suggesting an increase in severity and increased need for hospitalization and intubation in obstetric patients. In the general population, the disease is more common among racial and ethnic minority populations, and severity is increased with comorbid conditions and obesity.