Preventing Acute Malnutrition in Young Children: Improving the Evidence for Current and Future Practice

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Kerac, Marko ^a   Seal, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KWASHIORKOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; DIET THERAPY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION;

EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITION THERAPY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84907960597     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001715     Document Type: Article

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