Management of children with acute malnutrition in resource-poor settings

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 597-603

  Brown, Kenneth H ^a   Nyirandutiye, Daniele H ^b   Jungjohann, Svenja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Helen Keller International   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; POTASSIUM; VITAMIN;

CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NUTRITION EDUCATION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; XEROPHTHALMIA;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION;

EID: 70350655556     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2009.194     Document Type: Review

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