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Overweight status of the primary caregivers of orphan and vulnerable children in 3 Southern African countries: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Africa is facing a nutritional transition where underweight and overweight coexist. Although the majority of programs for orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) focus on undernourishment, the association between OVC primary caregiving and the caregivers’ overweight status remains unclear....

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Autores principales: Kanamori, Mariano, Carter-Pokras, Olivia, Madhavan, Sangeetha, Feldman, Robert, He, Xin, Lee, Sunmin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26250533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2061-2