The nutritional status of Grade 1 pupils, in Bloemfontein, South Africa and its association with socio-demographic data

• Main Authors: Hanneke Brits (Author), Riana Augustyn (Author), Elzette Bezuidenhout (Author), Marisa Cillie (Author), Roelof J.v. Vuuren (Author), Gina Joubert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: AOSIS, 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Despite the fact that UNICEF declared freedom from hunger and malnutrition abasic human right in 1948, more than 20 million children were severely malnourished in 2010 and a further 170 million were stunted. Malnutrition attributes to > 50% of child deaths by potentiating infectious d...