The influence of maternal psychosocial circumstances and physical environment on the risk of severe wasting in rural Gambian infants: a mixed methods approach

BACKGROUND: Severe wasting affects 16 million under 5’s and carries an immediate risk of death. Prevalence remains unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa and early infancy is a high-risk period. We aimed to explore risk factors for severe wasting in rural Gambian infants. METHODS: We undertook a ca...

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Autores principales: Nabwera, Helen M., Moore, Sophie E., Mwangome, Martha K., Molyneux, Sassy C., Darboe, Momodou K., Camara-Trawally, Nyima, Sonko, Bakary, Darboe, Alhagie, Singhateh, Seedy, Fulford, Anthony J., Prentice, Andrew M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29304780
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4984-2

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