Nutritional status of children of urban low-income communities, Brazil (1986)
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Nutritional status of children of urban low-income communities, Brazil (1986).
During the second half of 1986 the health and nutritional status of 254 children aged up to six years was studied, as well as the socio-economic situation of their parents in two favelas (shantytowns) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The nutritional status of the children was characterized by stunting (Z-score: 20.1% less than -2) but not by wasting (Z-score: 3.7% less than -2). Consideration was als...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista de Saúde Pública
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0034-8910
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89101989000200002