Meet the editors

Dr. Masoud Mohammadnezhad graduated with a MSc in Health Promotion from Tarbiat Modares University in Iran in 2002 and was awarded his Ph.D. in Public Health from Flinders University, Australia, in 2014. Dr Mohammadnezhad has more than 15 years of experience in teaching undergraduate, postgraduate, and MBBS courses in various university settings. He is currently teaching a variety of public health courses, along with develop-

ing the course outlines, at Fiji National University (FNU), where he is an Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Promotion) in the School of Public Health and Primary Care, along with being the program coordinator for the health promotion discipline. He has published more than 50 articles, seven of which have been published in 2017. He has published more than 70 articles and have also presented at more than 60 national and international conferences. He is an editorial board member of several leading international journals, such as Global Health Journal, and a reviewer for a number of high quality journals, such as the British Medical Journal, BMC Public Health, PLOS ONE, Rural and Remote Health, Health Promotion Journal of Australia, and Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Dr. Nafisa Huq is an academician and health care professional working in the School of Public Health, Independent University, Bangladesh. Alongside teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, she is responsible for assisting in research projects at the university and undertaking some administrative duties. Her research interest is in community mental health with a special focus on women and children. Mental health is a significant part

of health that influences other aspects of maternal and child health especially with regard to nutrition, self-care, child care, and education. She has recently completed field work on a fellowship from the South Asian Hub for Advocacy Research and Education (SHARE) in mental health where she looked into health care seeking behavior of rural women with and without depression. She also works with Mental Health Awareness Training Education and Research (MATERS) Trust where one of the goals is to address persistent disparities in maternal, infant, and child health with a "life course" perspective to health promotion and disease prevention.

Contents

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 91**

**Chapter 7 105**

The Interrelation of the Mother's Health Status with the State of Health

Public Policies for Promotion of Maternal-Infant Health in Brazil:

Cytokines and Maternal Omega-3 LCPUFAs Supplementation

Correlates of Caesarean Section Delivery in West Bengal, India:

Safe Childbirth and Motherhood in African Great Lakes Region: External Pelvimetry in Nulliparae and Scheduled Caesarean Section *by Jean-Baptiste Kakoma, Xavier Kinenkinda, Fanny Malonga, Joseph Nsambi, Micrette Ngalula, Jeanne Ngoy and Jean Kalibushi*

Quality Care for Mothers and Newborns at Birth in Mexico *by Bonifacio Caballero Noguéz, Roberto Aguli Ruíz Rosas* 

Adolescents Romantic Relationship: Dynamics of Parent-Child

*by Navaneetham Janardhana and Basavaraj Manjula*

Some Experiences with Adolescent Mothers in São Paulo

*by Yessica Rodriguez-Santana and Luis Peña-Quintana*

of First- and Second-Year-Old Children *by Elena Nikolaeva and Vera Merenkova*

*by Aline Mizutani Gomes and Renato Alves*

An Analysis Based on DLHS-3 *by Rayhan SK and Somdutta Barua*

*and Ernesto Calderon Cisneros*

Relationship from India
