Diarrhea no more: Does zinc help the poor? Evidence on the effectiveness of programmatic efforts to reach poorest in delivering zinc and ORS at scale in UP and Gujarat, India

Journal of Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Le Fevre, Amnesty E ^a   Mohan, Diwakar ^a   Mazumder, Sarmila ^b   Lamberti, Laura L ^a   Taneja, Sunita ^b   Black, Robert E ^a   Fischer Walker, Christa L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

CHILD HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD HEALTH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; ZINC;

EID: 85010339207     PISSN: 20472978     EISSN: 20472986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.06.021001     Document Type: Article

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