What explains Cambodia's success in reducing child stunting-2000-2014?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Zanello, Giacomo ^a   Srinivasan, C S ^a   Shankar, Bhavani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CIVIL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; NATURAL DISASTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUNTING; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBAN HEALTH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84991810831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162668     Document Type: Article

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