Prevalence of wasting among under 6-month-old infants in developing countries and implications of new case definitions using WHO growth standards: A secondary data analysis

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1008-1013

  Kerac, Marko ^a   Blencowe, Hannah ^b   Grijalva Eternod, Carlos ^a   McGrath, Marie ^c   Shoham, Jeremy ^c   Cole, Tim J ^a   Seal, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c Emergency Nutrition Network   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; WASTING SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; STARVATION; WASTING SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 80054771411     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.191882     Document Type: Article

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