Correction: Geospatial inequalities and determinants of nutritional status among women and children in Afghanistan: an observational study (The Lancet Global Health (2018) 6(4) (e447–e459) (S2214109X18300251) (10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30025-1));Geospatial inequalities and determinants of nutritional status among women and children in Afghanistan: an observational study

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2018, Pages e447-e459

  Akseer, Nadia ^a,b   Bhatti, Zaid ^d   Mashal, Taufiq ^e   Soofi, Sajid ^d   Moineddin, Rahim ^c   Black, Robert E ^f   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a,b,d,f  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e Ministry of Public Health   (Afghanistan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; FEMALE; FOOD SECURITY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; LANDSCAPE; LITERACY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME; BAYES THEOREM; GROWTH DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THINNESS; WASTING SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85042031012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30187-6     Document Type: Erratum

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