Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), environmental enteropathy, nutrition, and early child development: Making the links

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1308, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 118-128

  Ngure, Francis M ^a   Reid, Brianna M ^a   Humphrey, Jean H ^b,c   Mbuya, Mduduzi N ^b   Pelto, Gretel ^a   Stoltzfus, Rebecca J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ZVITAMBO   (Zimbabwe)

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

Author keywords

Anemia; Child development; Environmental enteropathy; Hygiene; Nutrition; Sanitation; Stunting; Water

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFANT FEEDING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PLAY; PROTECTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIALIZATION; STUNTING;

ANEMIA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTEROPATHY; HYGIENE; NUTRITION; SANITATION; STUNTING; WATER;

ANEMIA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; ENVIRONMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SANITATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84893026512     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12330     Document Type: Article

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