Early introduction of water and complementary feeding and nutritional status of children in northern Senegal

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1299-1304

  Gupta, Neil ^a   Gehri, Mario ^b   Stettler, Nicolas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Diarrhoea; Infant food; Malnutrition; Western Africa

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENEGAL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STUNTING SYNDROME; WASTING SYNDROME;

BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENEGAL; WATER;

EID: 35448935642     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007696384     Document Type: Article

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