Letter to the Editor: Is the strength of association between indicators of dietary quality and the nutritional status of children being underestimated?

The World Health Organization's infant and young child feeding (IYCF) indicators were developed to fill multiple needs: to facilitate the assessment and comparison of IYCF practices across settings, to identify populations at risk and to evaluate the impact of interventions and measure progress towards achieving targets (World Health Organization 2008). Understanding the relationships between these indicators and child anthropometric outcomes, as described in a recently published paper in Maternal & Child Nutrition (Jones et al. 2014), is relevant to many of these objectives because an important goal of many IYCF interventions is to improve growth.

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