Estimating children's weights: A developing country perspective [5]

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 938-939

  Pollock, Louisa ^a   Molyneux, Elizabeth ^a   Jefferis, Oliver ^a   Bunn, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 35148816096     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.120469     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

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2. National Statistics Office. Malawi demographic and health survey 2004. Zomba, Malawi: NSO, 2005.
3. World Health Organization. Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition: guidelines for first-referral level in developing countries. Geneva: WHO, 2000.
4. Molyneux E, Brogan R, Mitchell G, et al. Children's weights: guess or measure by tape? Lancet 1999;354:1616.