Tackling malnutrition: A systematic review of 15-year research evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance systems

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Arthur, Samuelina S ^a,b   Nyide, Bongiwe ^a,c,d   Soura, Abdramane Bassiahi ^a,e   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,f,g   Weston, Mark ^h   Sankoh, Osman ^a,f,i  

^a Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c MANGOSUTHU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h Independent Consultant   (Tanzania)

ⁱ HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Health and demographic surveillance system; LMICs; Low and middle income countries; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Overweight; Under and over nutrition

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OBESITY; PROCEDURES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84949033831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.28298     Document Type: Article

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