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Determinants of stunting among children aged 6 to 59 months in pastoral community, Afar region, North East Ethiopia: unmatched case control study

BACKGROUND: Stunting is defined as a child with a height for-age Z-score less than minus two standard deviations. Globally, 162 million less than 5 years were stunted. In Ethiopia, Nationally the prevalence of stunting among under five children was 38.4% and in Afar it is above the national average...

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Autores principales: Kahssay, Molla, Woldu, Etsay, Gebre, Abel, Reddy, Surender
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7050729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32153979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40795-020-00332-z