Infant feeding: a reflection regarding the nursing curricula in Mexico City.

Given the key position of the nursing profession in primary health care, in this article we examine the nursing degree curricula in public institutions in Mexico City to establish whether these programs of study include the topics necessary to implement the current recommendations regarding infant feeding. We perform a documentary analysis that compares the nursing curricula to the two official regulations existing on the subject. In a total of eleven locations, nine public institutions offer undergraduate degrees in nursing.

[A bibliometric review of infant feeding in Mexico].

Objective: a bibliometric analysis on published articles about infant feeding, in Mexican biomedical journals, during 2000-2009, is presented.

Methods: six journals, edited by public institutions or medical associations, published at least one article dealing with the selected theme. From a total of 3,077 articles published, only 2.

[Nutrition intervention actions in relief situations: report on 4 experiences in Mexico].

In the last years Mexico faced several natural and human provoked disasters. We choose the Mexico City earthquake, the Chichonal volcano eruption, the Guatemala war and its refugees and the Chiapas armed movement. In all of them the INCMNSZ surveillance system proposal has been applied.