Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost?

The Lancet - Tập 382 Số 9890 - Trang 452-477 - 2013
Zulfiqar A Bhutta1, Jai K Das2, Arjumand Rizvi2, Michelle F Gaffey3, Neff Walker4, Susan Horton5, Patrick Webb6, Anna Lartey7, Robert E. Black4
1Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Electronic address: [email protected].
2Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
3Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
4Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
5University of Waterloo Waterloo ON Canada
6Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
7University of Ghana, ACCRA, Ghana

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