Assessment of the PROBIT approach for estimating the prevalence of global, moderate and severe acute malnutrition from population surveys

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 858-863

  Dale, Nancy M ^a   Myatt, Mark ^b   Prudhon, Claudine ^c   Briend, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

^b Brixton Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Health and Nutrition Tracking Service   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Keywords Surveys; Mid upper arm circumference; Nutrition; PROBIT; Weight for height

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; ARTICLE;

ACUTE DISEASE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84876113881     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012003345     Document Type: Article

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