Prevalence of nutritional wasting in populations: building explanatory models using secondary data.

OBJECTIVE: To understand how social context affects the nutritional status of populations, as reflected by the prevalence of wasting in children under 5 years of age from Africa, Latin America, and Asia; to present a systematic way of building models for wasting prevalence, using a conceptual framew...

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Published in:Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 282 - 292
Main Authors: Fernandez ID, Himes JH, de Onis M
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: World Health Organization 2002
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