Delivering essential nutrition services for children after the Nepal earthquake

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2015, Pages e665-e666

  Aguayo, Víctor M ^a   Sharma, Anirudra ^a   Subedi, Giri Raj ^b  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b Minister for Health and Population Nepal   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; CHILD NUTRITION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; DISASTER; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; NEPAL; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEPAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 84944201703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00184-9     Document Type: Note

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