Bangladesh's story of change in nutrition: Strong improvements in basic and underlying determinants with an unfinished agenda for direct community level support

Global Food Security

Volumn 13, Issue , 2017, Pages 21-29

  Nisbett, Nicholas ^a   Davis, Peter ^b   Yosef, Sivan ^c   Akhtar, Nazneen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Independent consultant   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Independent Consultant   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Policy; Underlying; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013673721     PISSN: 22119124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2017.01.005     Document Type: Review

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