An uncertainty estimate of the prevalence of stunting in national surveys: the need for better precision

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Santu Ghosh (مؤلف), Nirupama Shivakumar (مؤلف), Sulagna Bandyopadhyay (مؤلف), Harshpal S. Sachdev (مؤلف), Anura V. Kurpad (مؤلف), Tinku Thomas (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: BMC, 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Stunting is determined by using the World Health Organization (WHO) child growth standard which was developed using precise measurements. However, it is unlikely that large scale surveys maintain the same level of rigour and precision when measuring the height of children. The po...