Household coverage of fortified staple food commodities in Rajasthan, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Aaron, Grant J ^a   Sodani, Prahlad R ^b   Sankar, Rajan ^a   Fairhurst, John ^a   Siling, Katja ^c   Guevarra, Ernest ^c   Norris, Alison ^c   Myatt, Mark ^d  

^a GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Health Management Research   (India)

^c VALID INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Brixton Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT; OIL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SECURITY; FORTIFIED FOOD; FORTIFIED STAPLE FOOD; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; POPULATION RISK; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; EATING; FAMILY SIZE; FLOUR; NUTRITION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WHEAT;

CHILD; EATING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FLOUR; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OILS; POVERTY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRITICUM;

EID: 84992484487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163176     Document Type: Article

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