Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Infant Health

Infant health encompasses the physical growth, development, and disease prevention of children from birth through the first year of life, a period of rapid somatic and neurological change marked by high vulnerability to nutritional deficiency and infection. Core determinants include feeding practices, micronutrient …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 74× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2644-0105 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Infant health encompasses the physical growth, development, and disease prevention of children from birth through the first year of life, a period of rapid somatic and neurological change marked by high vulnerability to nutritional deficiency and infection. Core determinants include feeding practices, micronutrient status, immunization, growth monitoring, and the broader maternal and socioeconomic environment in which a child is raised. Exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months supplies optimal macronutrients and immunological protection, and its uptake is shaped by maternal knowledge, facility-based support, and cultural context; storage and handling of expressed breastmilk further affect its nutritional integrity. Research in this area also addresses vitamin D adequacy, growth surveillance and task-shifting to caregivers, prevention of vertical HIV transmission, and the maternal nutrition that underpins healthy fetal and infant outcomes. Child mortality modeling and studies of antenatal and facility-based nutrition services situate individual infant health within population and health-systems perspectives. The peer-reviewed studies indexed under this topic examine breastmilk composition, determinants of exclusive breastfeeding, maternal and child healthcare integration, micronutrient assessment, and child survival across diverse low- and middle-income settings, reflecting an applied, public-health orientation toward improving early-life outcomes.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 74 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Infant Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Breastfeeding Biology (ISSN 2644-0105).

Journal editorial board
Gail Christopher · United States Ann Anderson Berry · United States

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