Severely malnourished children with a low weight-for-height have a higher mortality than those with a low mid-upper-arm-circumference: III. Effect of case-load on malnutrition related mortality- policy implications

Nutrition Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Grellety, Emmanuel ^a   Golden, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute malnutrition; Case fatality rate; Case load; Child; Diagnosis; Human; Kwashiorkor; Mid upper arm circumference; Mortality; MUAC; Nutrition; Oedema; Prognosis; SAM; Severe acute malnutrition; Wasting; Weight for height; WHZ

Indexed keywords

ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE FATALITY RATE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNDERWEIGHT; WORKLOAD;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; THINNESS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 85053347480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12937-018-0382-6     Document Type: Article

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