Estimating the cost of delivering direct nutrition interventions at scale: National and subnational level insights from India

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 169-185

  Menon, Purnima ^a   Mcdonald, Christine M ^b   Chakrabarti, Suman ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Famine Early Warning Systems Network   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Health; India; Nutrition; Scaling up; South Asia

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; IRON; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BREAST FEEDING; BUDGET; CHILD NUTRITION; COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FORTIFIED FOOD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SCALING UP NUTRITION; WORM EXPULSION; COST; ECONOMICS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH EDUCATION; NUTRITION; NUTRITION POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALNUTRITION; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITION THERAPY; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84968820400     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12257     Document Type: Article

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