Recommendations for Improving Guatemala's Food Fortification Program Based on Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) Data
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Recommendations for improving Guatemala's food fortification program based on household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data.
BACKGROUND Fortification offers great potential for reducing the enormous disease burden of micronutrient deficiencies. The lack of information on food consumption patterns has been a major impediment to the development of fortification programs. In some countries, the absence of this information has been an obstacle to the introduction of fortification. In countries that have fortification, go...
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عنوان ژورنال: Food and Nutrition Bulletin
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0379-5721,1564-8265
DOI: 10.1177/156482651003100208