The nutritional status of Grade 1 pupils, in Bloemfontein, South Africa and its association with socio-demographic data
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Copyright: © 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Background: Despite the fact that UNICEF declared freedom from hunger and malnutrition a basic human right in 1948, more than 20 million children were severely malnourished in 2010 and a further 170 million were stunted. Malnutrition attributes to >50% of child deaths by potentiating infectious diseases.
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