Improving child survival through vitamin A supplementation

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7822, 2011, Pages

  Thorne Lyman, Andrew ^a   Fawzi, Wafaie W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALARIA; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; XEROPHTHALMIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84859004431     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d5294     Document Type: Editorial

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