The lack of progress in reducing anaemia among women: The inconvenient truth

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 231-

  Branca, Francesco ^a   Mahy, Lina ^a   Mustafa, Thahira Shireen ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; IRON INTAKE;

ANEMIA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON SUPPLEMENTATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NUTRITION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; IRON INTAKE; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ANEMIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON, DIETARY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84897466384     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.14.137810     Document Type: Editorial

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