Why have mortality rates for severe malnutrition remained so high?;?Por que siguen siendo tan altas las tasas de mortalidad por malnutricion grave?

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 295-300

  Schofield, C ^a   Ashworth, A ^a,b  

^a Esc Higiene y Med Trop de Londres   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; PROTEIN; SODIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; FATALITY; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEIN INTAKE; REVIEW; SODIUM INTAKE;

MALNUTRITION;

EID: 0030609545     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1020-49891997000400006     Document Type: Review

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