Cost-effectiveness of price subsidies on fortified packaged infant cereals in reducing iron deficiency anemia in 6-23-month-old-children in Urban India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Plessow, Rafael ^a   Arora, Narendra Kumar ^b   Brunner, Beatrice ^a   Wieser, Simon ^a  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b International Clinical Epidemiology Network   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREAL; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRICE SUBSIDY; URBAN AREA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD GRAIN; FORTIFIED FOOD; MALE; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; URBAN POPULATION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDIBLE GRAIN; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84963749255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152800     Document Type: Article

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