Mainstreaming interventions in the health sector to address maternal and child undernutrition

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages 1-4

  Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a   Shekar, Meera ^b   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^c  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INCOME; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; POVERTY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 39449132706     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2007.00132.x     Document Type: Editorial

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