Postgraduate education in nutrition in south Asia: A huge mismatch between investments and needs

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Khandelwal, Shweta ^a   Paul, Tanusree ^a   Haddad, Lawrence ^b   Bhalla, Surbhi ^a   Gillespie, Stuart ^c   Laxminarayan, Ramanan ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Curriculum; Higher Education; Public health nutrition; South Asia

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASIA; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SRI LANKA; STATISTICS;

ASIA; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84892155662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-14-3     Document Type: Article

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