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The fantastic year of 2010 – and the really hot topic: breast-feeding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2010

Agneta Yngve ,
Marilyn Tseng ,
Allison Hodge ,
Geraldine McNeill  and
Irja Haapala
Agneta Yngve
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Editor-in-Chief
Marilyn Tseng
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Deputy Editors
Allison Hodge
Affiliation:
Deputy Editors
Geraldine McNeill
Affiliation:
Deputy Editors
Irja Haapala
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Deputy Editors
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 13 , Issue 12 , December 2010 , pp. 1945
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Copyright © The Authors 2010

Impact factor and size

This year has been a good one for our journal. We have increased our impact factor substantially, to the current 2·749, from the 2008 impact factor of 2·132. We have had more papers submitted than ever, and we are sending you a much heavier printed issue after increasing the number of pages.

Editorial board and the people behind the scene

The Editorial Board has had some good additions of hard-working colleagues and among the Deputy Editors we can now find Marilyn Tseng from California Polytechnic State University, USA, who has been with the journal for several years. Three recently added deputies are Dr Allison Hodge from University of Melbourne, Australia; Dr Irja Haapala, University of Eastern Finland; and Prof Geraldine McNeill, University of Aberdeen and the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health. A large number of new Associate Editors have been invited, representing new areas as well as a more total global coverage.

At the Nutrition Society, Catherine Jackson, Lalitha Weeks and Julie Hickman are doing a great day-to-day job with the journal. The publications officer Dr David Bender is always a reliable source of guidance and support in journal matters. At Cambridge University Press, Carol Miller, Katy Christomanou, Kathryn Wilson and Rebecca Curtis are doing a lot of good work for the journal; as is Gill Watling, our freelance copyeditor and proof-reader.

In this issue

In the current issue you will find MANY papers on breastfeeding. There is one letter to the editor from Hermann Kalhoff and Katharina Dube(Reference Kalhoff and Dube1) about iron deficiency among fully breast-fed children and a response to this letter from Michael Kramer(Reference Kramer2). You can also find papers regarding determinants for breast-feeding and exclusive breast-feeding(Reference Bonet, Blondel and Khoshnood3, Reference Kristiansen, Lande and Øverby4) and breast-feeding prevalence(Reference Häggkvist, Brantsæter and Grjibovski5, Reference Andersson, Paredes-Solís and Legorreta-Soberanis6). The paper by Häggkvist et al.(Reference Häggkvist, Brantsæter and Grjibovski5) represents extremely interesting material from the gigantic Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), covering almost 30 000 mothers and children. Not surprisingly, the results from this study show that supplementation during the first week, breast-feeding problems and Caesarian delivery are associated with early cessation of full breast-feeding.

This issue also has a number of papers covering infant and young child feeding, ranging from developing a diet–lifestyle quality index for young children(Reference Manios, Kourlaba and Grammatikaki7) to infant feeding practices among HIV-positive women in Tanzania(Reference Young, Israel-Ballard and Dantzer8) and consequences of early fruit and vegetable feeding practices in the UK(Reference Coulthard, Harris and Emmett9).

Thank you to all authors, Cambridge University Press, The Nutrition Society and editors. The busy year of 2010 could only have been made so successful with the support from all of you. Thank you and Happy New Year!

References

1. Kalhoff, H & Dube, K (2010) Iron deficiency in infants fully breastfed for 6 months may not be transitory: first observations during the second half of infancy (letter). Public Health Nutr 13, 2130–2131.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
2. Kramer, MS (2010) Response to Drs Kalhoff and Dube (letter). Public Health Nutr 13, 2131–2132.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3. Bonet, M, Blondel, B & Khoshnood, B (2010) Evaluating regional differences in breast-feeding in French maternity units: a multi-level approach. Public Health Nutr 13, 1946–1954.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
4. Kristiansen, AL, Lande, B, Øverby, NC et al. (2010) Factors associated with exclusive breast-feeding and breastfeeding in Norway. Public Health Nutr 13, 2087–2096.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
5. Häggkvist, AP, Brantsæter, AL, Grjibovski, AM et al. (2010) Prevalence of breast-feeding in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study and health service-related correlates of cessation of full breast-feeding. Public Health Nutr 13, 2076–2086.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
6. Andersson, N, Paredes-Solís, S, Legorreta-Soberanis, J et al. (2010) Breast-feeding in a complex emergency: four linked cross-sectional studies during the Bosnian conflict. Public Health Nutr 13, 2097–2104.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
7. Manios, Y, Kourlaba, G, Grammatikaki, E et al. (2010) Development of a diet–lifestyle quality index for young children and its relation to obesity: the Preschoolers Diet–Lifestyle Index. Public Health Nutr 13, 2000–2009.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
8. Young, SL, Israel-Ballard, KA, Dantzer, EA et al. (2010) Infant feeding practices among HIV-positive women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, indicate a need for more intensive infant feeding counselling. Public Health Nutr 13, 2027–2033.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
9. Coulthard, H, Harris, G & Emmett, P (2010) Long-term consequences of early fruit and vegetable feeding practices in the United Kingdom. Public Health Nutr 13, 2044–2051.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed