Community Mobilization and Social Marketing to Promote Weekly Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation: A New Approach Toward Controlling Anemia Among Women of Reproductive Age in Vietnam

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue SUPPL.2, 2005, Pages

  Khan, Nguyen Cong ^a   Thanh, Hoang Thi Kim ^a   Berger, Jacques ^b   Hoa, Pham Thuy ^a   Quang, Nguyen Dinh ^c   Smitasiri, Suttilak ^d   Cavalli Sforza, Tommaso ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (Viet Nam)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNICEF   (United States)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e The World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific philippines   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Anemia; Social mobilization; Vietnam; Weekly iron folic acid supplementation; Women of reproductive age

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON INTAKE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; VIET NAM;

ADULT; ADVERTISING; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IRON, DIETARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PRENATAL CARE; VIETNAM; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 33644868261     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2005.tb00166.x     Document Type: Article

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