Progress towards millennium development goal 1 in Latin America and the Caribbean: the importance of the choice of indicator for undernutrition
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of using stunting versus underweight as the indicator of child undernutrition for determining whether countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are on track to meet the component of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 pertaining to the eradication of hunger, namely...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011000100009&lng=en&tlng=en |