Mapping child growth failure in Africa between 2000 and 2015

Nature

Volumn 555, Issue 7694, 2018, Pages 41-47

  Osgood Zimmerman, Aaron ^a   Millear, Anoushka I ^a   Stubbs, Rebecca W ^a   Shields, Chloe ^a   Pickering, Brandon V ^a   Earl, Lucas ^a   Graetz, Nicholas ^a   Kinyoki, Damaris K ^a   Ray, Sarah E ^a   Bhatt, Samir ^b   Browne, Annie J ^c   Burstein, Roy ^a   Cameron, Ewan ^c   Casey, Daniel C ^a   Deshpande, Aniruddha ^a   Fullman, Nancy ^a   Gething, Peter W ^c   Gibson, Harry S ^c   Henry, Nathaniel J ^a   Herrero, Mario ^d   Krause, L Kendall ^e   Letourneau, Ian D ^a   Levine, Aubrey J ^a   Liu, Patrick Y ^a   Longbottom, Joshua ^c   Mayala, Benjamin K ^a   Mosser, Jonathan F ^a   Noor, Abdisalan M ^c,f   Pigott, David M ^a   Piwoz, Ellen G ^e   Rao, Puja ^a   Rawat, Rahul ^e   Reiner, Robert C ^a   Smith, David L ^a   Weiss, Daniel J ^c   Wiens, Kirsten E ^a   Mokdad, Ali H ^a   Lim, Stephen S ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Kassebaum, Nicholas J ^a,g   Hay, Simon I ^a,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^f KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^g SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; MALNUTRITION; PRECISION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GENERAL HEALTH STATUS ASSESSMENT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOAL ATTAINMENT; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; POPULATION HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SAHEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STUNTING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

AFRICA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GOALS; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; THINNESS; WASTING SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85042778719     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature25760     Document Type: Article

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