Global research priorities to accelerate early child development in the sustainable development era

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2016, Pages e887-e889

  Dua, Tarun ^a   Tomlinson, Mark ^b   Tablante, Elizabeth ^a   Britto, Pia ^c   Yousfzai, Aisha ^d   Daelmans, Bernadette ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^e  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNICEF   (United States)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY RATE; NOTE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GLOBAL HEALTH; INFANT; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESEARCH;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RESEARCH;

EID: 84999652034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30218-2     Document Type: Note

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