Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 4 , Pages 371-378 , April 2008

Malnutrition and morbidity among children not reached by the national vitamin A capsule programme in urban slum areas of Indonesia

  • S.G. Berger

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 550 N. Broadway, Suite 700, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • ,
  • S. de Pee

      Affiliations

    • Helen Keller International Asia Pacific, Singapore
    • ,
  • M.W. Bloem

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 550 N. Broadway, Suite 700, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Nutrition Service, Policy, Strategy and Programme Support Division, World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • S. Halati

      Affiliations

    • Helen Keller International, Jakarta, Indonesia
    • ,
  • R.D. Semba

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 550 N. Broadway, Suite 700, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +14109553572; fax: +14109550629.

Received 14 August 2006 ,Revised 22 May 2007 ,Accepted 6 August 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.08.003

Public Health
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