Micronutrient-rich food consumption, intra-household food allocation and child stunting in rural Nigeria.
Objective: Children from rural households are often deprived of adequate micronutrient intakes either from food or supplementation. The present study examines: (i) the determinants of households' micronutrient-rich food consumption; and (ii) the combined effect of vitamin A supplementation and micro...
| Publicado en: | Public Health Nutrition Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 444 - 455 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2019
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