Nutritional status and mortality of refugee and resident children in a non-camp setting during conflict: Follow up study in Guinea-Bissau

British Medical Journal

Volumn 319, Issue 7214, 1999, Pages 878-881

  Aaby, Peter ^a   Gomes, Joaquim ^b   Fernandes, Manuel ^b   Djana, Queba ^b   Lisse, Ida ^b   Jensen, Henrik ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^b BANDIM HEALTH PROJECT   (Guinea-Bissau)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RICE; WAR;

EID: 0033517507     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.878     Document Type: Article

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