Malnutrition and Mortality Patterns among Internally Displaced and Non-Displaced Population Living in a Camp, a Village or a Town in Eastern Chad

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Guerrier, Gilles ^a   Zounoun, Malaïka ^a   Delarosa, Olimpia ^b   Defourny, Isabelle ^b   Lacharite, Michelo ^b   Brown, Vincent ^a   Pedalino, Biagio ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHAD; CHILD; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFUGEE; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHAD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES VACCINE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION GROUPS; REFUGEES; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 77951238165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008077     Document Type: Article

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