Operational implications of using 2006 World Health Organization growth standards in nutrition programmes: Secondary data analysis

British Medical Journal

Volumn 334, Issue 7596, 2007, Pages 733-735

  Seal, Andrew ^a   Kerac, Marko ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c VALID INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGERIA; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KENYA; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; GROWTH; INFANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITION SCIENCES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34247212675     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39101.664109.AE     Document Type: Article

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