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Nutrition of Australian Aboriginal infants and children
Author(s) -
GRACEY M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1991.tb02536.x
Subject(s) - medicine , declaration , pediatrics , environmental health , law , political science
Adequate nutrition is essential for normal growth during childhood. This is so important that the United Nations has included ‘provision of adequate nutrition’ in their International Declaration of the Rights of the Child. For paediatricians, satisfactory growth is the most important, practical indicator of adequate nutrition but growth is affected by other genetic and environmental factors, particularly repeated or chronic infection.