Childhood stunting: Measuring and stemming the staggering costs of inadequate water and sanitation

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9403, 2004, Pages 94-95

  Dillingham, Rebecca ^a   Guerrant, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DISABILITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NOTE; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SANITATION; SEWAGE; STUNTING SYNDROME; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0346056893     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15307-X     Document Type: Note

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