Prevalence and determinants of child undernutrition and stunting in semiarid region of Brazil

OBJECTIVE : To analyze the evolution in the prevalence and determinants of malnutrition in children in the semiarid region of Brazil. METHODS : Data were collected from two cross-sectional population-based household surveys that used the same methodology. Clustering sampling was used to collect...

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Main Authors: Luciano Lima Correia, Anamaria Cavalcante e Silva, Jocileide Sales Campos, Francisca Maria de Oliveira Andrade, Márcia Maria Tavares Machado, Ana Cristina Lindsay, Álvaro Jorge Madeiro Leite, Hermano Alexandre Lima Rocha, Antonio José Ledo Alves da Cunha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-02-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102014000100019&lng=en&tlng=en