Nutritional status and disease severity in children acutely presenting to a primary health clinic in rural Gambia

• Main Authors: Henry Mark (Author), Jasper V. Been (Author), Bakary Sonko (Author), Abdoulie Faal (Author), Mohammed Ngum (Author), Jahid Hasan (Author), Andrew M. Prentice (Author), Stefan A. Unger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Accurate and timely data on the health of a population are key for evidence-based decision making at both the policy and programmatic level. In many low-income settings, such data are unavailable or outdated. Using an electronic medical records system, we determined the associati...