United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees feeding program performance in Kenya and Tanzania: A retrospective analysis of routine Health Information System data

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 150-160

  Tappis, Hannah ^a   Doocy, Shannon ^a   Haskew, Christopher ^b   Wilkinson, Caroline ^b   Oman, Allison ^b   Spiegel, Paul ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Humanitarian intervention; Malnutrition; Refugee; Supplementary feeding; Therapeutic feeding

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CHILD HEALTH; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HEALTH RISK; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; REFUGEE;

KENYA; TANZANIA;

EID: 84863009464     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/156482651203300209     Document Type: Article

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