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

• Главные авторы: Fernandez Isabel D. (Автор), Himes John H. (Автор), Onis Mercedes de (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: The World Health Organization, 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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OBJETIVE: 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 framewo...