Assessing the impact of the introduction of the world health organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children: Secondary data analysis

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Isanaka, Sheila ^a,b   Villamor, Eduardo ^a   Shepherd, Susan ^c   Grais, Rebecca F ^b,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d EPICENTRE   (France)

Author keywords

Child malnutrition; Niger; Selective feeding; Therapeutic feeding; Wasting; Who growth standards

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH CURVE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NIGER; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; WEIGHT GAIN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 59449098047     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-1375     Document Type: Article

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