Strengthening actions to improve feeding of infants and young children 6 to 23 months of age: Summary of a recent World Health Organization/UN ICEF technical meeting, Geneva, 6-9 October 2008

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Daelmans, Bernadette ^a   Mangasaryan, Nuné ^b,c   Martines, Jose ^a   Saadeh, Randa ^a   Casanovas, Carmen ^a   Arabi, Mandana ^b  

^a Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development   (Switzerland)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; INFANT FEEDING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 68949162974     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/15648265090302s208     Document Type: Article

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