Excluding infants under 6 months of age from surveys: Impact on prevalence of pre-school undernutrition

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-87

  Lopriore, C ^a   Dop, M C ^a   Solal Celigny A ^a   Lagnado, G ^a  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Infants; Nutrition surveys; Pre school children; Prevalence of stunting; Undernutrition; Underweight; Wasting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; MONITORING; NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH DISORDER; MALE; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33847769152     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007219676     Document Type: Article

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