Has the first implementation phase of the Community Nutrition Project in urban Senegal had an impact?

Nutrition

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 219-228

  Gartner, Agnès ^a   Kameli, Yves ^a   Traissac, Pierre ^a   Dhur, Agnès ^b   Delpeuch, Francis ^a   Maire, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b World Food Programme   (Italy)

Author keywords

Child malnutrition; Impact evaluation; Large scale urban Community Nutrition Programme; Quasi experimental design; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION EDUCATION; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUNTING SYNDROME; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD NUTRITION SCIENCES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHERS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SENEGAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847796122     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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