Evaluation of Nutrition Surveys in Flood-affected Areas of Pakistan: Seeing the Unseen!

IDS Bulletin

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 10-20

  Hossain, S M Moazzem ^a   Talat, Mah ^e   Boyd, Erin ^b   Chowdhury, Shamim Rafique ^c   Soofi, Sajid Bashir ^d   Hussain, Imtiaz ^d   Ahmed, Imran ^d   Salam, Rehana Abdus ^d   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a,d  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^c Government of the Punjab   (Pakistan)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e Aga Khan University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; FLOOD; MALNUTRITION; NATURAL DISASTER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

BALUCHISTAN; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN]; SIND;

EID: 84877806250     PISSN: 02655012     EISSN: 17595436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1759-5436.12026     Document Type: Article

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