Use of new World Health Organization child growth standards to assess how infant malnutrition relates to breastfeeding and mortality

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-48

  Vesel, Linda ^a   Bahl, Rajiv ^a   Martines, Jose ^a   Penny, Mary ^b   Bhandari, Nita ^c   Kirkwoodd, Betty R ^d   Arthur, P ^d   Morris, S ^d   Amenga Etego, S ^e   Zandoh, C ^e   Boahen, O ^e   Bhandari, N ^f   Bhan, M K ^f   Wahed, M A ^g   Lanata, C F ^b   Butron, B ^b   Huapaya, A R ^b   Rivera, K B ^b   Moulton, L H ^h   Ram, M ^h   Kjolhede, C L ^h   Propper, L ^h   Martines, J ^a   Underwood, B ^a   more..

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^c SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^f ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^g INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

AGE CLASS; BREASTFEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; IMMUNIZATION; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; WEIGHT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PREVALENCE; UNDERWEIGHT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WASTING SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; PERU; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

GHANA; INDIA; PERU;

EID: 74549209003     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.08.057901     Document Type: Article

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