Measuring nutritional status in relation to mortality.
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This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. To complement this month’s theme of the Bulletin, Mercedes de Onis reviews the 1956 paper by F. Gomez et al. on mortality in second and third degree malnutrition. The original paper is reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
دوره 78 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000