Declining child malnutrition: a reassessment
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Declining child malnutrition: a reassessment.
BACKGROUND Monitoring of the progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of malnourished children before year 2015 relies on the estimated trends in child stunting and underweight from the WHO. METHODS Two methods are used for assessing the reliability of the WHO estimates of trends in child stunting. One method is to estimate changes over time with an alt...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl157