Measuring wealth in rural communities: Lessons from the sanitation, hygiene, infant nutrition efficacy (SHINE) trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Chasekwa, Bernard ^a   Maluccio, John A ^b   Ntozini, Robert ^a   Moulton, Lawrence H ^c   Wu, Fan ^b   Smith, Laura E ^a,e   Matare, Cynthia R ^d   Stoltzfus, Rebecca J ^d   Mbuya, Mduduzi N N ^f   Tielsch, James M ^g   Martin, Stephanie L ^h   Jones, Andrew D ⁱ   Humphrey, Jean H ^a,c   Fielding, Katherine ^j  

^a Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research   (Zimbabwe)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

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

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^f GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION   (Switzerland)

^g GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h University of North Carolina   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRUG EFFICACY; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; ZIMBABWE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ECONOMIC STATUS; HUMANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85049135343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199393     Document Type: Article

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