The Adolescent Girls' Anaemia Control Programme: A decade of programming experience to break the inter-generational cycle of malnutrition in India

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1667-1676

  Aguayo, Víctor M ^a   Paintal, Kajali ^a   Singh, Gayatri ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescent girls; Anaemia; India; Knowledge; Supplementation

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; IRON; TRACE ELEMENT; IRON INTAKE;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON INTAKE; MALNUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PUBLIC HEALTH; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; DEFICIENCY; PROCEDURES; THERAPEUTIC USE;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; INDIA; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; MALNUTRITION; MICRONUTRIENTS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84881091618     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012005587     Document Type: Review

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