Severe acute malnutrition in Asia

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages S14-S26

  Ahmed, Tahmeed ^a,b   Hossain, Muttaquina ^a   Mahfuz, Mustafa ^a   Choudhury, Nuzhat ^a   Hossain, Mir Mobarak ^c   Bhandari, Nita ^d   Lin, Maung Maung ^e   Joshi, Prakash Chandra ^f   Angdembe, Mirak Raj ^g   Wickramasinghe, V Pujitha ^h   Hossain, S M Moazzem ^f   Shahjahan, Mohammad ^e   Irianto, Sugeng Eko ^e   Soofi, Sajid ⁱ   Bhutta, Zulfiqar ⁱ  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c Institute of Public Health Dhaka   (Bangladesh)

^d SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f UNICEF   (United States)

^g POKHARA UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

ⁱ AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Asia; Health systems; Intervention programs; Severe acute malnutrition

Indexed keywords

BREASTFEEDING; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; FEEDING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; MALNUTRITION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFGHANISTAN; BANGLADESH; INDIA; INDONESIA; PAKISTAN; YEMEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; ASIA; BANGLADESH; COMMUNITY CARE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD ASSISTANCE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACUTE DISEASE; AFGHANISTAN; ASIA; BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FOOD ASSISTANCE; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION POLICY;

EID: 84905906317     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: 15648265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/15648265140352S103     Document Type: Article

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