Open AccessPreventing Acute Malnutrition among Young Children in Crises: A Prospective Intervention Study in Niger
Author(s) -
Céline Langendorf,
Thomas Roederer,
Saskia de Pee,
Denise Scott Brown,
Stéphane Doyon,
AbdoulAziz Mamaty,
Lynda W.-M. Touré,
Mahamane L. Manzo,
Rebecca F. Grais
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001714
Subject(s) - malnutrition , environmental health , medicine , cash transfers , incidence (geometry) , severe acute malnutrition , developing country , prospective cohort study , pediatrics , cash , business , economic growth , surgery , pathology , optics , economics , physics , finance
Céline Langendorf and colleagues conducted a pragmatic intervention study in Niger to assess whether distributions of supplementary foods in addition to household support by cash transfer effectively reduced malnutrition in children aged 6 to 23 months. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
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