Use of new World Health Organization child growth standards to assess how infant malnutrition relates to breastfeeding and mortality
OBJECTIVE: To compare the estimated prevalence of malnutrition using the World Health Organization's (WHO) child growth standards versus the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) growth reference, to examine the relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and malnutrition, and to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000100013&lng=en&tlng=en |