Shared principles of ethics for infant and young child nutrition in the developing world

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Singh, Jerome Amir ^a,b,c   Daar, Abdallah S ^a   Singer, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABY FOOD; COOPERATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; MALE; NEWBORN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NUTRITION POLICY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 77953125818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-321     Document Type: Article

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