Tawana project-school nutrition program in Pakistan - Its success, bottlenecks and lessons learned

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 357-360

  Badruddin, Salma Halai ^a   Agha, Ajmal ^a   Peermohamed, Habib ^a   Rafique, Ghazala ^a   Khan, Kausar S ^a   Pappas, Gregory ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Nutrition education; Pakistan; Primary school; Rural population; School lunch

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PAKISTAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHOOL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD NUTRITION SCIENCES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MENU PLANNING; PAKISTAN; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH; SCHOOLS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46049108601     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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