The Global Hidden Hunger Indices and Maps: An Advocacy Tool for Action

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Muthayya, Sumithra ^a   Rah, Jee Hyun ^b   Sugimoto, Jonathan D ^c,d   Roos, Franz F ^e   Kraemer, Klaus ^f   Black, Robert E ^g  

^a SAX INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d USA   (United States)

^e DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS LTD   (Switzerland)

^f Sight and Life ^*  (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL; TRACE ELEMENT;

AFGHANISTAN; AFRICA; AFRICAN REGION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN UNION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDIA; IODINE DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STUNTING;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; AVITAMINOSIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; HUNGER; IODINE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PLANNING; VITAMIN A;

EID: 84878953232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067860     Document Type: Article

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