Improved assessment of child nutritional status using target weights and a novel, low-cost, weight-for-height slide chart

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-26

  Kerac, Marko ^a,b,d   Seal, Andrew ^b   Blencowe, Hannah ^a   Bunn, James ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d VALID INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONVALESCENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MONITORING; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MORPHOMETRICS; STANDARD;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 64549164109     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2008.080096     Document Type: Article

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