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Socioeconomic factors associated with severe acute malnutrition in Jamaica

OBJECTIVES: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is an important risk factor for illness and death globally, contributing to more than half of deaths in children worldwide. We hypothesized that SAM is positively correlated to poverty, low educational attainment, major crime and higher mean soil concentra...

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Autores principales: Thompson, Debbie S., Younger-Coleman, Novie, Lyew-Ayee, Parris, Greene, Lisa-Gaye, Boyne, Michael S., Forrester, Terrence E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28291805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173101

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