Global Child Health: Promises Made to Children—Not Yet Kept

Anemia in Pregnant Women and Children Aged 6 to 59 Months Living in Mozambique and Portugal: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

“…Patterning of anemia by socioeconomic status was also noted for children: a child living in a household in the lowest wealth quintile was 21.0% more likely to be anemic than were those in the highest wealth quintile [30]. Conditional on demographic and socioeconomic factors, the mother's anemia status was among the strongest predictors of anemia in children [30,34]. Our review shows that age and gender were the social determinants more analyzed comparatively to indicators such as the years of schooling or wealth index [37,40,42,43].…”

“…A total of 20 articles were considered eligible (2.7%; 20/728) (Figure 1). These 20 potentially relevant articles were published between 2009 and 2018; 45.0% (9/20) mentioned Mozambique [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]; 15.0% (3/20) mentioned Portugal [37][38][39] and 40.0% (8/20) mentioned both countries [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] (Supplementary File S3).…”

“…These 20 potentially relev articles were published between 2009 and 2018; 45.0% (9/20) mentioned Mozambi [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]; 15.0% (3/20) mentioned Portugal [37][38][39] and 40.0% (8/20) mentioned both co tries [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] (Supplementary File S3). Most of the publications were on the infancy and childhood subgroup (65 13/20) and studied mainly issues centered on anemia/iron deficiency and years of lost, disability-adjusted life years [30,[32][33][34][35][36]40,[42][43][44]46,47] (Supplementary File S3). garding the quality assessment, we verified that, in general, most of the checklist it were applied (95.0-100%).…”

“…Overall, the articles sele had a good methodological quality (Figure 2 and Supplementary File S2). Most of the publications were on the infancy and childhood subgroup (65.0%; 13/20) and studied mainly issues centered on anemia/iron deficiency and years of life lost, disability-adjusted life years [30,[32][33][34][35][36]40,[42][43][44]46,47] (Supplementary File S3). Regarding the quality assessment, we verified that, in general, most of the checklist items were applied (95.0-100%).…”

“…Iron deficiency anemia (65.0%; 13/20) [31][32][33][34][35]37,[40][41][42][43][44]46,47] and prevalence of anemia (35.0%; 7/20) [30,33,34,37,40,42,43] were the most mentioned, whereas maternal and infant anemia were the least mentioned (10.0%; 2/20) [28,30] (Supplementary File S3). Regarding nutritional indicators, few articles mentioned maternal nutritional indicators which were related to supplementation with folic acid during pregnancy (10.0%; 2/20) [32,34] and the use of micronutrients for home fortification (5.0%; 1/20) [35] (Supplementary File S3). Breastfeeding was the only infant and young infant nutritional indicator mentioned across the selected publications (5.0%; 1/20) [33]; other indicators such as exclusive breastfeeding or infant formula were not mentioned.…”