Management of acute moderate and severe childhood malnutrition.
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Management of acute moderate and severe childhood malnutrition.
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CLINICAL REVIEW Management of acute moderate and severe childhood malnutrition
Acute childhood malnutrition affects about a tenth of the world’s children under 5 years of age, particularly those living in circumstances of extreme poverty in the developingworld. Malnutrition is typically the result of an inadequate diet and is one of the most common diagnoses in children in health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. Acute childhood malnutrition leads togreater...
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متن کاملUNICEF/World Food Programme/United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Consultation on the Management of Moderate Malnutrition in Children under 5 Years of Age
Moderate malnutrition includes all children with moderate wasting, defined as a weight-for-height between –3 and –2 z-scores of the World Health Organization (WHO) child growth standards, and all those with moderate stunting, defined as a height-for-age between –3 and –2 z-scores of the WHO child growth standards [1]. Most of these children will be moderately underweight (weight-for-age between...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ
دوره 337 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008