Child disability screening, nutrition, and early learning in 18 countries with low and middle incomes: data from the third round of UNICEF's Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (2005-06)

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9704, 2009, Pages 1831-1839

  Gottlieb, Carissa A ^a   Maenner, Matthew J ^a   Cappa, Claudia ^b   Durkin, Maureen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SAMPLING; SCHOOL; SCREENING; STUNTING SYNDROME; UNDERWEIGHT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 71549155958     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61871-7     Document Type: Article

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