No improvement in weight-for-age of young children in southern Senegal, 1969-1992, despite a drastic reduction in mortality. Evidence from a growth monitoring programme

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1202-1208

  Pinchinat, Sybil ^a   Enel, Catherine ^b   Pison, Gilles ^b   Duthé, Géraldine ^b   Lagarde, Emmanuel ^c   Simondon, François ^a   Simondon, Kirsten B ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^c Hospital National de Saint Maurice   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Growth; Infant; Mortality; Nutrition disorders; Trends

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; WEIGHT;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MONITORING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENEGAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNDERWEIGHT;

BODY WEIGHT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GROWTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SENEGAL;

AFRICA; CASAMANCE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SENEGAL; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 12344288118     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh174     Document Type: Article

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